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KMID : 0613820080180040572
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Journal of Life Science
2008 Volume.18 No. 4 p.572 ~ p.579
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Advances of Genome Research in Livestock Animals
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Song Ki-Duk
Cho Byung-Wook
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Abstract
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Genome research in economic animals has progressed rapidly in recent years, transforming from primitive genome maps to quantitative/qualitative trait maps that are indispensable to gene discovery. These advances have been benefited from the result of animal genome sequencing projects and functional genomics that are being extensively applied in livestock animal research following the development of large expressed sequences tags (ESTs). Genome sequencing efforts will provide information to QTL study by larger scale single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) association study. Comparative genomics which is applying the information from human genome research as well as rodents model has contributed to important discoveries in economic animal genome research. These efforts will speed up much denser QTL maps development for phenotypic traits which are not easy to measure and to be identified by quantitative genetics [20] and lead to development of convincing markers associated with economically important trait, which will be eventually applied to livestock industry. In addition to practical application, animal genome research will enrich the understanding of human physiology in terms of genome biology.
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KEYWORD
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Livestock, genome research, QTL
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