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Agriculture Victoria
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Huan Yuan, Edmond J. Breen, Iona M. MacLeod, Majid Khansefid, Ruidong Xiang, Michael Edward Goddard
BayesR3AD extends Bayesian mixture models to jointly estimate additive and dominance genetic effects, improving prediction accuracy for fertility and longevity in Holstein cattle.
bioRxiv · Feb 25, 2026 · PreprintGenetics
Seyed Mohammad Ghoreishifar, Iona M. MacLeod, Amanda Jane Chamberlain, Zhiqian Liu, Thomas Lopdell, Mathew D. Littlejohn, Ruidong Xiang, J.E. Pryce, Michael Edward Goddard
The paper tests three methods to identify causal genes for milk lipid traits in cattle using GWAS, transcriptomics, and gene ontology analysis, finding significant overlaps but limited power.
PLoS Genetics · May 30, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics
Ruidong Xiang, Lingzhao Fang, Shuli Liu, Iona M. MacLeod, Zhiqian Liu, Edmond J. Breen, Yahui Gao, George E. Liu, Albert Tenesa, Brett Mason, Amanda Jane Chamberlain, Naomi R. Wray, Michael Edward Goddard
The paper quantifies how gene expression and splicing QTL explain heritability in cattle traits using Bayesian methods across 16 tissues.
Cell Genomics · Aug 23, 2023Peer-reviewedGenomics
Ruidong Xiang, Ed J. Breen, Sunduimijid Bolormaa, Christy J. Vander Jagt, Amanda Jane Chamberlain, Iona M. MacLeod, Michael Edward Goddard
The paper investigates the effects of classical mutant alleles on cattle complex traits and fitness, finding differential impacts on fertility, stature, milk production, and mastitis risk.
Communications Biology · Dec 2, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics
Evans K. Cheruiyot, M. Haile‐Mariam, Benjamin G. Cocks, Iona M. MacLeod, Ruidong Xiang, J.E. Pryce
This study identifies new genetic loci and neuronal pathways associated with heat tolerance in dairy cows using genome-wide association analysis of milk production traits.
Scientific Reports · Aug 17, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics
Ruidong Xiang, Irene van den Berg, Iona M. MacLeod, Ben J. Hayes, Claire Prowse-Wilkins, Min Wang, Sunduimijid Bolormaa, Zhiqian Liu, Simone J. Rochfort, Coralie M. Reich, Brett Mason, Christy J. Vander Jagt, Hans D. Daetwyler, Mogens Sandø Lund, Amanda Jane Chamberlain, Michael Edward Goddard
The paper identifies sequence variants with regulatory and evolutionary significance in cattle and ranks them using a Functional-And-Evolutionary Trait Heritability score to improve genomic prediction.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Sep 9, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics
Ruidong Xiang, Ben J. Hayes, Christy J. Vander Jagt, Iona M. MacLeod, Majid Khansefid, P.J. Bowman, Zehu Yuan, Claire Prowse-Wilkins, Coralie M. Reich, Brett Mason, Josie B. Garner, Leah C. Marett, Yizhou Chen, Sunduimijid Bolormaa, Hans D. Daetwyler, , Michael Edward Goddard
The paper identifies bovine sQTLs associated with RNA splicing variation and shows they are shared across tissues and linked to complex traits.
BMC Genomics · Jul 4, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics
Hubert Pausch, Iona M. MacLeod, Ruedi Fries, Reiner Emmerling, P.J. Bowman, Hans D. Daetwyler, Michael Edward Goddard
This study evaluates imputation accuracy in cattle and identifies QTL for milk fat percentage using imputed variants.
Genetics Selection Evolution · Feb 21, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics