Polymorphism within the GATA binding protein 4 gene is significantly associated with goat litter size

References

• Abdoli R, Zamani P, Mirhoseini SZ, Hossein Z, Navid G, Almasi M. Genetic parameters and trends for litter size in Markhoz goats. Rev Colom Cienc Pecua. 2019;32(1):58–63.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu HB, Muhammad T, Guo YS, et al. RNA-binding protein IGF2BP2/IMP2 is a critical maternal activator in early zygotic genome activation. Adv Sci. 2019;6(15):1900295.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Li H, Xu H, Akhatayeva Z, et al. Novel indel variations of the sheep FecB gene and their effects on litter size. Gene. 2021;767:145176.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shaat I, Mäki-Tanila A. Variation in direct and maternal genetic effects for meat production traits in Egyptian Zaraibi goats. J Anim Breed Genet. 2009;126(3):198–208.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Collard BCY, Mackill DJ. Marker-assisted selection: an approach for precision plant breeding in the twenty-first century. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008;363(1491):557–572.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hui Y, Zhang Y, Wang K, et al. Goat DNMT3B: an indel mutation detection, association analysis with litter size and mRNA expression in gonads. Theriogenology. 2020;147:108–115.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ma Y, Chen N, Li F, et al. Bovine HSD17B8 gene and its relationship with growth and meat quality traits. Sci. Bull. 2015;60(18):1617–1621.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yang M, Wei JG, Li PF, Wei S, Huang Y, Qin Q. MHC polymorphism and disease resistance to Singapore grouper iridovirus (SGIV) in the orange-spotted grouper. Epinephelus Coioides. Sci. Bull. 2016;61(9):693–699.
   Google Scholar
• Tremblay M, Sanchez-Ferras O, Bouchard M. GATA transcription factors in development and disease. Development. 2018;145(20):dev164384.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Whitcomb J, Gharibeh L, Nemer M. From embryogenesis to adulthood: critical role for GATA factors in heart development and function. IUBMB Life. 2020;72(1):53–67.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Imai KS, Kobayashi K, Kari W, et al. Gata is ubiquitously required for the earliest zygotic gene transcription in the ascidian embryo. Dev Biol. 2020;458(2):215–227.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jin T, Zhang X, Li H, Goss PE. Characterization of a novel silencer element in the human aromatase gene PII promoter. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2000;62(2):151–159.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Efimenko E, Padua MB, Manuylov NL, Fox SC, Morse DA, Tevosian SG. The transcription factor GATA4 is required for follicular development and normal ovarian function. Dev Biol. 2013;381(1):144–158.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hu YC, Okumura LM, Page DC. Gata4 is required for formation of the genital ridge in mice. PLoS Genet. 2013;9(7):e1003629.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bennett J, Wu YG, Gossen J, Zhou P, Stocco C. Loss of GATA-6 and GATA-4 in granulosa cells blocks follicul -ogenesis, ovulation, and follicle stimulating hormone receptor expression leading to female infertility. Endocrinology. 2012;153(5):2474–2485.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gillio-Meina C, Hui YY, LaVoie HA. GATA-4 and GATA-6 transcription factors: expression, immunohistoch -mical localization, and possible function in the porcine ovary. Biol Reprod. 2003;68(2):412–422.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• LaVoie HA, McCoy GL, Blake CA. Expression of the GATA-4 and GATA-6 transcription factors in the fetal rat gonad and in the ovary during postnatal development and pregnancy [J. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2004;227(1–2):31–40.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Laitinen MP, Anttonen M, Ketola I, et al. Transcription factors GATA-4 and GATA-6 and a GATA family co-factor, FOG-2, are expressed in human ovaryand sexcord-derived ovarian tumors. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2000;85(9):3476–3483.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• de Mattos KV, Viger RS, Tremblay JJ. Transcription Factors in the Regulation of Leydig Cell Gene Expression and Function. Front Endocrinol. 2022;13:881309.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Okumura T, Takeda K, Kuchiki M, Akaishi M, Taniguchi K, Adachi-Yamada T. Adachi-Yamada T. Gata regulates intestinal stem cell maintenance and differentiation in drosophila adult midgut. Dev Biol. 2016;410(1):24–35.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kinnunen SV, Lim KM, T, Lli, et al. Nuclear receptor-like Structure and Interaction of congenital heart disease-associated factors Gata4 and nkx2-5. PLoS One. 2015;10(12):e0144145.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhang X, Zhang TJ, Liu W, et al. Mutational analysis of the GATA4 gene in Chinese men with nonobstructive azoospermia. Asian J Androl. 2021;23(2):205–210.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang YQ, Batool A, Chen SR, Liu YX. GATA4 is a negative regulator of contractility in mouse testicular peritubular myoid cells. Reproduction. 2018;156(4):343–351–351.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Guo S, Li J, Wang S. Study on the function of Gata4 gene in the testis development of male mice based on the CRISPR/Cas9 technique. Anim Husbandry Vet Med. 2018;50(8):36–39.
   Google Scholar
• Rotgers E, Jørgensen A, Yao HH. At the crossroads of fate-somatic cell lineage specification in the fetal gonad. Endocr Rev. 2018;39(5):739–759.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Xu C, Mohsin A, Luo Y, et al. Differentiation roadmap of embryonic Sertoli cells derived from mouse embryonic stem cells. Stem Cell Res Ther. 2019;10(1):81.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Bennett J, Baumgarten SC, Stocco C. GATA4 and GATA6 silencing in ovarian granulosa cells affects levels of mRNAs involved in steroidogenesis, extracellular structure organization, IGF-I activity, and apoptosis. Endocrinology. 2013;154(12):4845–4858.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bielinska M, Seehra A, Toppari J, Heikinheimo M, Wilson DB. GATA-4 is required for sex steroidogenic cell development in the fetal mouse. Dev Dyn. 2007;236(1):203–213.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miyamoto Y, Taniguchi H, Hamel F, Silversides DW, Viger RS. A GATA4/WT1 cooperation regulates transcription of genes required for mammalian sex determination and differentiation. BMC Mol Biol. 2008;9:44.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhao J. Shaanbei White Cashmere Goats “Breeding Three Times within Two Years” Management Technology Solutions [Master’s Thesis]. Yangling, China: Northwest A&F University; 2017.
   Google Scholar
• Wang L, Cai B, Zhou S, et al. RNA-seq reveals transcriptome changes in goats following myostatin gene knockout. PLoS One. 2017;12(12):e0187966.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang K, Kang Z, Jiang E, et al. Genetic effffects of DSCAML1 identifified in genomewide association study revealing strong associations with litter size and semen quality in goat (Capra hircus). Theriogenology. 2020;146:20–25.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Aljanabi SM, Martinez I. Universal and rapid salt-extraction of high quality genomic DNA for PCR-based techniques. Nucleic Acids Res. 1997;25(22):4692–4693.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yang Q, Zhang s, Liu L, et al. Application of mathematical expectation (ME) strategy for detecting low frequency mutations: an example for evaluating 14-bp insertion/deletion (indel) within the bovine PRNP gene. Prion. 2016;10(5):409–419.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Li Z, Zhang Z, He Z, et al. A partition-ligation-combination-subdivision EM algorithm for haplotype inference with multiallelic markers: update of the SHEsis (http://analysis. bio-x. cn). Cell Res. 2009;19(4):519–523.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nei M. Analysis of gene diversity in subdivided populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1973;19770(12):3321–3323.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang Z, Zhang X, Jiang E, et al. InDels within caprine IGF2BP1 intron 2 and the 3′-untranslated regions are associated with goat growth traits. Anim Genet. 2020;51(1):117–121.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smirnov AV, Shnaider TА, Korablev AN, Yunusova AM, Serova IA, Battulin NR. A hypomorphic mutation in the mouse Csn1s1 gene generated by CRISPR/Cas9 pronuclear microinjection. Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genet Selektsii. 2021;25(3):331–336.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vogt G. Epigenetic variation in animal populations: sources, extent, phenotypic implications, and ecological and evolutionary relevance. J Biosci. 2021;46(1):24.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bi Y, Feng W, Kang Y, et al. Detection of mRNA expression and copy number variations within the Goat FecB gene associated with litter size. Front Vet Sci. 2021;8:758705.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang X, Yang Q, Wang K, et al. Two strongly linked single nucleotide polymorphisms (Q320P and V397I) in GDF9 gene are associated with litter size in cashmere goats. Theriogenology. 2019;125:115–121.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ren F, Yu S, Chen R, Lv X, Pan C. Identification of a novel 12-bp insertion/deletion (indel) of iPS-related Oct4 gene and its association with reproductive traits in male piglets. Anim Reprod Sci. 2017;178:55–60.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhang S, Jiang E, Wang K, et al. Two insertion/deletion variants within SPAG17 gene are associated with goat body measurement traits. Animals. 2019;9(6):379.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cui Y, Yan H, Wang K, et al. Insertion/deletion within the KDM6A gene is significantly associated with litter size in Goat. Front Genet. 2018;9:91.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhang Y, Wang K, Liu J, et al. An 11-bp Indel polymorphism within the CSN1S1 gene is associated with milk performance and body measurement traits in Chinese Goats. Animals. 2019;9(12):1114.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wu H, Pan Y, Zhang Q, et al. Insertion/deletion (InDel) variations in sheep PLAG1 gene locating in growth-related major QTL are associated with adult body weight and morphometric traits. Small Ruminant Res. 2019;178:63–69.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Magotra A, Bangar YC, Chauhan A, Malik BS, Malik ZS. Influence of maternal and additive genetic effects on offspring growth traits in Beetal goat. Reprod Domest Anim. 2021;56(7):983–991.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kang Z, Bai Y, Lan X, Zhao H. Goat AKAP12: Indel mutation detection, association analysis with litter size and alternative splicing variant expression. Front Genet. 2021;12:648256.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chen H, He Y, Wen X, Shao S, Liu Y, Wang J. SOX9: advances in gynecological malignancies. Front Oncol. 2021;11:768264.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang X, Zhong J, Gao Y, Ju Z, Huang J. A SNP in intron 8 of CD46 causes a novel transcript associated with mastitis in Holsteins. BMC Genom. 2014;15:630.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van Laere AS, Nguyen M, Braunschweig M, et al. A regulatory mutation in IGF2 causes a major QTL effffect on muscle growth in the pig. Nature. 2003;425(6960):832–836.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fushan AA, Simons CT, Slack JP, Manichaikul A, Drayna D. Allelic polymorphism within the TAS1R3 promoter is associated with human taste sensitivity to sucrose. Curr. Biol. 2009;19(15):1288–1293.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Soldner F, Stelzer Y, Shivalila CS, et al. Parkinson-associated risk variant in distal enhancer of α-synuclein modulates target gene expression. Nature. 2016;533(7601):95–99.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhang X, Yan H, Wang K, et al. Goat CTNNB1: mRNA expression profile of alternative splicing in testis and association analysis with litter size. Gene. 2018;679:297–304.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Xin D, Bai Y, Bi Y, et al. Insertion/deletion variants within the IGF2BP2 gene identified in reported genome-wide selective sweep analysis reveal a correlation with goat litter size. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2021;22(9):757–766.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tremblay JJ, Viger RS. GATA factors differentially activate multiple gonadal promoters Throush conserved GATA regulatory elements. Endocrinology. 2001;142(3):977–986.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Luo X, Ikeda Y, Parker KL. A cell-specificnuclear receptor is essential for adrenal andgonadal development and sexual differentiation. Cell. 1994;77(4):481–490.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• LaVoie HA. The role of GATA in mammalian reproduction. Exp Biol Med. 2003;228(11):1282–1290.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Anttonen M, Unkila—Kallio L, Leminen A, Butzow R, Heikinheimo M. High GATA-4 expression associates with aggressive behavior, whereas low anti-Mullerian hormone expression associates with growth potential of ovarian granulosa cell tumors. J Clin Endocrinot Meta. 2005;90(12):6529–6535.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Manuylov NL, Fujiwara Y, Adameyko II, Poulat F, Tevosian SG. The regulation of Sox9 gene expression by the GATA4/FOG2 transcriptional complex in dominant XX sex reversal mouse models. Dev Biol. 2007;307(2):356–367.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van den Bergen JA, Robevska G, Eggers S, et al. Analysis of variants in GATA4 and FOG2/ZFPM2 demonstrates benign contribution to 46, XY disorders of sex development. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2020;8(3):e1095.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zheng WM, Grafer CM, Kim J, Halvorson LM. Gonadotropinreleasing hormone and gonadal steroids regulate transcription factor mRNA expression in primary pituitary and immortalized gonadotrope cells. Reprod Sci. 2015;22(3):285–299.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vaskivuo TE, Anttonen M, Herva R, et al. Survival of human ovarian follicles from fetal to adult life: apoptosis, apoptosis-related proteins, and transcription factor GATA-4. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2001;86(7):3421–3429.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hussein MR. Apoptosis in the ovary: molecular mechanisms. Hum Reprod Update. 2005;11(2):162–177.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar