Heritability estimates for Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis status of German Holstein cows tested by fecal culture.

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      Publisher: American Dairy Science Association Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 2985126R Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1525-3198 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00220302 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Dairy Sci Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Champaign, IL : American Dairy Science Association
      Original Publication: Lancaster, Pa. [etc.]
    • Subject Terms:
      Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis*; Cattle Diseases/*genetics ; Paratuberculosis/*genetics; Animals ; Cattle ; Cattle Diseases/epidemiology ; Cattle Diseases/microbiology ; Feces/microbiology ; Female ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics ; Germany/epidemiology ; Male ; Paratuberculosis/epidemiology ; Prevalence
    • Abstract:
      The objective of this study was to estimate genetic manifestation of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infection in German Holstein cows. Incorporated into this study were 11,285 German Holstein herd book cows classified as MAP-positive and MAP-negative animals using fecal culture results and originating from 15 farms in Thuringia, Germany involved in a paratuberculosis voluntary control program from 2008 to 2009. The frequency of MAP-positive animals per farm ranged from 2.7 to 67.6%. The fixed effects of farm and lactation number had a highly significant effect on MAP status. An increase in the frequency of positive animals from the first to the third lactation could be observed. Threshold animal and sire models with sire relationship were used as statistical models to estimate genetic parameters. Heritability estimates of fecal culture varied from 0.157 to 0.228. To analyze the effect of prevalence on genetic parameter estimates, the total data set was divided into 2 subsets of data into farms with prevalence rates below 10% and those above 10%. The data set with prevalence above 10% show higher heritability estimates in both models compared with the data set with prevalence below 10%. For all data sets, the sire model shows higher heritabilities than the equivalent animal model. This study demonstrates that genetic variation exists in dairy cattle for paratuberculosis infection susceptibility and furthermore, leads to the conclusion that MAP detection by fecal culture shows a higher genetic background than ELISA test results. In conclusion, fecal culture seems to be a better trait to control the disease, as well as an appropriate feature for further genomic analyses to detect MAP-associated chromosome regions.
      (Copyright © 2012 American Dairy Science Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20120501 Date Completed: 20120904 Latest Revision: 20120430
    • Publication Date:
      20221213
    • Accession Number:
      10.3168/jds.2011-4994
    • Accession Number:
      22541503