A Nelore Cattle Structural Variant Catalog
Thales de Lima Silva, Alexander S Leonard, Pablo Augusto de Souza Fonseca, Haroldo Henrique de R Neves, Alexandre M Ruiz, Lucas Tassoni Andrietta, Gerardo A Fernandes Júnior, Júlio Cesar de C Balieiro, Hubert Pausch, Roberto Carvalheiro, Ricardo Vieira Ventura · 2026
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Description
Thales de Lima Silva and co-authors build, in a 2026 study, the first large catalog of structural variants in Nelore cattle, the world's most numerous indicine breed. Structural variants are big DNA changes that differ between animals more than single-letter changes do, yet no validated population catalog existed for this breed.
Long-read sequencing of twenty bulls, checked by two software callers, found more than eighty thousand shared variants. Most passed a separate read-based check. Only about a third could be tracked by the standard gene chips used on farms, so routine testing misses most of this variation. A subset tied to indicine ancestry overlaps genes linked to immune defense and stress response.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Thales de Lima Silva, Alexander S Leonard, Pablo Augusto de Souza Fonseca, Haroldo Henrique de R Neves, Alexandre M Ruiz, Lucas Tassoni Andrietta, Gerardo A Fernandes Júnior, Júlio Cesar de C Balieiro, Hubert Pausch, Roberto Carvalheiro, Ricardo Vieira Ventura |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 57 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |