The impact of identity by descent on fitness and disease in dogs

Domestic dogs have experienced population bottlenecks, recent inbreeding, and strong artificial selection. These processes have simplified the genetic architecture of complex traits, allowed deleterious variation to persist, and increased both identity-by-descent (IBD) segments and runs of homozygos...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2021-04, Vol.118 (16), p.1-7
Main Authors: Mooney, Jazlyn A., Yohannes, Abigail, Lohmueller, Kirk E.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biological Sciences
Canidae
Canis lupus familiaris
Dogs
Domestic animals
Exons
Genetic diversity
Genomes
Heredity
Homozygosity
Inbreeding
Inbreeding depression
Lymphoma
Phenotypes
Phenotypic variations
Villages
Wolves
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Summary:Domestic dogs have experienced population bottlenecks, recent inbreeding, and strong artificial selection. These processes have simplified the genetic architecture of complex traits, allowed deleterious variation to persist, and increased both identity-by-descent (IBD) segments and runs of homozygosity (ROH). As such, dogs provide an excellent model for examining how these evolutionary processes influence disease. We assembled a dataset containing 4,414 breed dogs, 327 village dogs, and 380 wolves genotyped at 117,288 markers and data for clinical and morphological phenotypes. Breed dogs have an enrichment of IBD and ROH, relative to both village dogs and wolves, and we use these patterns to show that breed dogs have experienced differing severities of bottlenecks in their recent past. We then found that ROH burden is associatedwith phenotypes in breed dogs, such as lymphoma. We next test the prediction that breeds with greater ROH have more disease alleles reported in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA). Surprisingly, the number of causal variants identified correlates with the popularity of that breed rather than the ROH or IBD burden, suggesting an ascertainment bias in OMIA. Lastly, we use the distribution of ROH across the genome to identify genes with depletions of ROH as potential hotspots for inbreeding depression and find multiple exons where ROH are never observed. Our results suggest that inbreeding has played a large role in shaping genetic and phenotypic variation in dogs and that future work on understudied breeds may reveal new disease-causing variation.
ISSN:0027-8424
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2019116118