Bighorn sheep T2T genome assembly reveals differences in immune genes: a potential cause of high morbidity due to respiratory pathogens
Olagunju, T. A.; Pospelova, M.; Schwartz, J. C.; Mousel, M. R.; Piel, L. M. W.; Grossman, P. C.; Huyvaert, K. P.; Kuhn, K. L.; Raihan, T.; Stegemiller, M. R.; Khilji, S. F.; Murdoch, G. K.; Tibary, A.; Waits, L. P.; Rhie, A.; Koren, S.; Phillippy, A. M.; McKay, S. D.; Clarke, S. M.; Clark, E. L.; Brauning, R.; Cockett, N. E.; Hammond, J. A.; Highland, M.; Safonova, Y.; Smith, T. P. L.; Rosen, B. D.; Murdoch, B. M.
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The bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), despite its close relation to domestic sheep, suffer higher morbidity and mortality from respiratory disease complexes, likely due to genetic differences in immune responses. Unraveling highly repetitive regions such as immune loci and genetic differences was problematic until now. We generated a bighorn sheep telomere-to-telomere assembly, adding 14.28% of novel sequence compared to the previous reference. This enabled the first complete immune loci annotation revealing the IGL and TR loci are significantly short in bighorn sheep. Importantly, a critical immune gene GBP5 and ZNF501, involved in Golgi-mediated immune response, are lacking in bighorn but present in domestic sheep. Re-analysis of a Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae carriage study, using this assembly, identified the immune gene CAPN2 as a key genetic marker for disease carriage, not observable in the original study. This work provides a critical resource for identifying phenotype-linked genetic variation and exploring evolutionary adaptations of bighorn sheep.
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