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Y and mitochondrial chromosomes in the heterogeneous stock rat population

  • Faith Okamoto
  • , Apurva S. Chitre
  • , Thiago Missfeldt Sanches
  • , Denghui Chen
  • , Daniel Munro
  • , Allegra T. Aron
  • , Angela Beeson
  • , Hannah V. Bimschleger
  • , Maya Eid
  • , Angel G. Garcia Martinez
  • , Wenyan Han
  • , Katie Holl
  • , Tyler Jackson
  • , Benjamin B. Johnson
  • , Christopher P. King
  • , Brittany N. Kuhn
  • , Alexander C. Lamparelli
  • , Alesa H. Netzley
  • , Khai Minh H. Nguyen
  • , Beverly F. Peng
  • Jordan A. Tripi, Tengfei Wang, Kendra S. Ziegler, Douglas J. Adams, Amelie Baud, Lieselot L.G. Carrette, Hao Chen, Giordano de Guglielmo, Pieter Dorrestein, Olivier George, Keita Ishiwari, Monica M. Jablonski, Thomas C. Jhou, Marsida Kallupi, Rob Knight, Paul J. Meyer, Leah C. Solberg Woods, Oksana Polesskaya, Abraham A. Palmer
  • University of California at San Diego
  • University of Denver
  • Wake Forest University
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • Medical College of Wisconsin
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • SUNY Buffalo
  • Medical University of South Carolina
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
  • Pompeu Fabra University

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Abstract

Genome-wide association studies typically evaluate the autosomes and sometimes the X Chromosome, but seldom consider the Y or mitochondrial (MT) Chromosomes. We genotyped the Y and MT Chromosomes in heterogeneous stock (HS) rats (Rattus norvegicus), an outbred population created from 8 inbred strains. We identified 8 distinct Y and 4 distinct MT Chromosomes among the 8 founders. However, only 2 types of each nonrecombinant chromosome were observed in our modern HS rat population (generations 81–97). Despite the relatively large sample size, there were virtually no significant associations for behavioral, physiological, metabolome, or microbiome traits after correcting for multiple comparisons. However, both Y and MT Chromosomes were strongly associated with the expression of a few genes located on those chromosomes, which provided a positive control. Our results suggest that within modern HS rats there are no Y and MT Chromosomes differences that strongly influence behavioral or physiological traits. These results do not address other ancestral Y and MT Chromosomes that do not appear in modern HS rats, nor do they address effects that may exist in other rat populations, or in other species.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberjkae213
JournalG3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Volume14
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2024

Keywords

  • PheWAS
  • RNA-seq
  • Y Chromosome
  • haplotype
  • heterogeneous stock
  • low-coverage
  • mitochondria
  • rat

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