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ArticleScientific reports2015

Collective effects of common SNPs in foraging decisions in Caenorhabditis elegans and an integrative method of identification of candidate genes.

Zuobin Zhu, Qing Lu, Junjing Wang, Shi Huang

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Zuobin ZhuState Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University. 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China.
Qing LuState Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University. 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China.
Junjing WangState Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University. 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China.
Shi HuangState Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Xiangya Medical School, Central South University. 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China.

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Abstract

Optimal foraging decision is a quantitative flexible behavior, which describes the time at which animals choose to abandon a depleting food supply. The total minor allele content (MAC) in an individual has been shown to correlate with quantitative variations in complex traits. We have studied the role of MAC in the decision to leave a food lawn in recombinant inbred advanced intercross lines (RIAILs) of Caenorhabditis elegans. We found a strong link between MAC and the food lawn leaving rates (Spearman r = 0.4, P = 0.005). We identified 28 genes of unknown functions whose expression levels correlated with both MAC and leaving rates. When examined by RNAi experiments, 8 of 10 tested among the 28 affected leaving rates, whereas only 2 of 9 did among genes that were only associated with leaving rates but not MAC (8/10 vs 2/9, P < 0.05). The results establish a link between MAC and the foraging behavior and identify 8 genes that may play a role in linking MAC with the quantitative nature of the trait. The method of correlations with both MAC and traits may find broad applications in high efficiency identification of target genes for other complex traits in model organisms and humans.

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Feeding BehaviorGenetic Association StudiesAllelesAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCrosses, GeneticFemaleGene Knockdown TechniquesGenes, HelminthInbreedingMalePolymorphism, Single NucleotideReceptors, Neuropeptide YRecombination, GeneticRNA InterferenceCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsNPR-1 protein, C elegansReceptors, Neuropeptide Y

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