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Identification of Risk Loci for Necrotizing Meningoencephalitis in Pug Dogs

2011; Oxford University Press; Volume: 102; Issue: Suppl_1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/jhered/esr048

1465-7333

Renee M. Barber, Scott J. Schatzberg, Jason J. Corneveaux, April N. Allen, Brian F. Porter, Jeremy J. Pruzin, Simon R. Platt, Marc Kent, Matthew J. Huentelman,

Microbial infections and disease research

Due to their unique population structure, purebred dogs have emerged as a key model for the study of complex genetic disorders. To evaluate the utility of a newly available high-density canine whole-genome array with >170 000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), genome-wide association was performed on a small number of case and control dogs to determine disease susceptibility loci in canine necrotizing meningoencephalitis (NME), a disorder with known non-Mendelian inheritance that shares clinical similarities with atypical variants of multiple sclerosis in humans. Genotyping of 30 NME-affected Pug dogs and 68 healthy control Pugs identified 2 loci associated with NME, including a region within dog leukocyte antigen class II on chromosome 12 that remained significant after Bonferroni correction. Our results support the utility of this high-density SNP array, confirm that dogs are a powerful model for mapping complex genetic disorders and provide important preliminary data to support in depth genetic analysis of NME in numerous affected breeds.