Bovine Cardiac Troponin I Gene (TNNI3) as a Candidate Gene for Bovine Dilated Cardiomyopathy

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troponin complex
cardiactroponin I gene (TNNI3)
bovine dilated cardiomyopathy (BDCMP)
Swiss Fleckvieh
cattle
Large or Food Animal and Equine Medicine
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Veterinary Medicine
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Owczarek-Lipska, Marta
Dolf, Gaudenz
Guziewicz, Karina E
Leeb, Tosso
Shelling, Claude
Posthaus, Horst
Braunschweig, Martin H
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The cardiac troponin complex, which is an important component of the contractile apparatus, is composed of the three subunits troponin I (TnI), troponin C (TnC) and troponin T (TnT). Troponin I is the inhibitory subunit and consists of three isoforms encoded by TNNI1, TNNI2 and TNNI3 genes, respectively. Due to the different types of cardiomyopathies caused by mutations in the TNNI3 gene and its fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) mapping on bovine chromosome 18q26, which was shown to be linked to the recessively inherited bovine dilated cardiomyopathy (BDCMP), bovine TNNI3 was considered as candidate gene for BDCMP. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) TNNI3 expression analysis resulted in a significant difference between BDCMP affected and unaffected animals when normalized to ACTB gene expression, but there was no significant difference in expression when normalized to GAPDH. Northen blotting experiment was in agreement with the expression analysis and did not reveal a significant difference between the group of BDCMP affected and unaffected animals. Sequencing of the bovine TNNI3 gene revealed a single nucleotide polymorphism in intron 6 (c.378+315G>A), but this single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)was present regardless of the BDCMP status. In summary our data provide evidence to exclude the bovine TNNI3 gene as a candidate for BDCMP.

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2009-01-01
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Archiv Tierzucht (Archives Animal Breeding)
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