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S. Glatthard, Naveen Kumar Kadri, Franz R. Seefried, Laura R. Voitl, Bettina A. Weber, Hermann Schwarzenbacher, Seraina L. Meister, Corinne Gurtner, John Francis O'Grady, Meret Osbahr, Alexander S. Leonard, Mireille Meylan, Hubert Pausch, Cord Drögemüller, Joana G. P. Jacinto
bioRxiv · Jul 10, 2026 · PreprintGenomics
Sotiria Milia, Alexander S. Leonard, Xena Marie Mapel, Sandra Milena Bernal-Ulloa, Cord Drögemüller, Hubert Pausch
The paper identifies a structural variant upstream of KIT associated with facial depigmentation in white-headed cattle using pangenome analysis and long-read sequencing.
Genome Research · Apr 1, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics
Arnav Mehrotra, Alexander S. Leonard, Cord Drögemüller, Alexander Grahofer, Negar Khayatzadeh, Andreas Hofer A, Stefan Neuenschwander, Hubert Pausch
This study performs genome-wide association analysis for haemorrhagic bowel syndrome in Swiss Large White pigs but finds no significant genetic variants associated with the disease.
bioRxiv · Apr 5, 2024 · PreprintGenomics
Danika L. Bannasch, Christopher B. Kaelin, Anna Letko, Robert Loechel, Petra Hug, Vidhya Jagannathan, Jan Henkel, Petra J. Roosje, Marjo K. Hytönen, Hannes Lohi, Meharji Arumilli, Juha Kere, Carsten O. Daub, César L. Araujo, Ileana B. Quintero, , Tosso Leeb
The paper identifies regulatory modules controlling dog color patterns and shows their evolutionary origin in extinct canids.
Nature Ecology & Evolution · Aug 12, 2021Peer-reviewedGenetics
Aurélie Allais‐Bonnet, Aurélie Hintermann, Marie-Christine Deloche, Raphaël Cornette, Philippe Bardou, Marina Naval-Sánchez, Alain Pinton, Ashleigh F. Haruda, Cécile Grohs, József Zákány, Daniele Bigi, Ivica Međugorac, Olivier Putelat, Ockert Greyvenstein, Tracy Hadfield, , Aurélien Capitan
The paper identifies POLYCERATE alleles in sheep and goats linked to defective HOXD1 function, showing haploinsufficiency causes horn bud splitting and highlights HOXD1's role in headgear patterning in Bovidae.
Molecular Biology and Evolution · Jan 29, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics
Niveditha Awasthi Mishra, Cord Drögemüller, Vidhya Jagannathan, Rémy Bruggmann, Julia Beck, Ekkehard Schütz, Bertram Brenig, Steffi Demmel, Simon Moser, Heidi Signer-Hasler, Aldona Pieńkowska-Schelling, Claude Schelling, Ronald Rongen, Stefan Rieder, Robert N. Kelsh, , Tosso Leeb
The paper identifies a non-coding copy number variant upstream of TWIST2 that causes a pigmentation trait in belted cattle by affecting melanocyte development.
bioRxiv · Sep 23, 2016Genetics