Improving the accuracy of genomic predictions for disease resistance traits in fish using a multiple-trait linear-threshold model

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第一作者： Hu, Hongxia

作者： Hu, Hongxia

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关键词： Genomic selection; Fish; Disease resistance trait; Multiple-trait model; Missing reference population

期刊名称：AQUACULTURE （ 影响因子：5.135； 五年影响因子：5.125 ）

ISSN： 0044-8486

年卷期： 2022 年 554 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Genomic selection is effective in enhancing the selection efficiency during breeding for improved disease resistance in fish. However, given that the collection of routine disease challenge data is generally costly and that disease resistance traits are threshold traits with typically low heritability, there has been comparatively limited progress in improving the accuracy of genomic prediction. The objective of this study was to assess the advantage of a multiple-trait linear-threshold model in genomic prediction of disease resistance traits in fish. The study was based on analyses of both simulated data and real data obtained for a rainbow trout population. We simulated a linear trait (growth trait, h(2) = 0.3) and a binary threshold trait (disease resistance trait, h(2) = 0.1) with different genetic correlations (0.1, 0.3 and 0.5). Single-and multiple-trait models with best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) and genomic BLUP (GBLUP) were implemented to investigate their prediction abilities. Moreover, we also assessed the impact of missing proportions of a reference population on genomic prediction for disease resistance traits. The results revealed that methods using marker information produced more accurate predictions than the pedigree-based BLUP method. Furthermore, for between-trait genetic correlations of 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5, the multiple-trait GBLUP for disease resistance traits showed 1.0%, 1.5% and 6.4% higher accuracy than single-trait GBLUP, respectively. Meanwhile, no improvement in accuracy was observed for the assessed growth trait. Moreover, with an increase in the genetic correlation between traits, we observed reductions in the consistency of estimated SNP effects using single-trait and multiple-trait GBLUP models. Our findings indicated the superiority of multiple-trait models in genomic prediction for a disease resistance trait with missing data; this superiority is more pronounced when the proportion of the reference population missing is large. Furthermore, using real data obtained for rainbow trout, we verified the advantage of the multiple-trait linear-threshold model in genomic prediction of binary survival, with the multiple-trait GBLUP model yielding a lower mean squared (absolute) error than the single-trait GBLUP model. Overall, our findings have important implications with regard to applying multiple-trait linear-threshold model in genomic selection for disease resistance in most aquaculture species.

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