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Background  Birth weight (BW) is an economically important trait in beef cattle, and is associated with growth- and stature-related traits and calving difficulty. One region of the cattle genome, located on  Bos primigenius taurus  chromosome 14 (BTA14), has been previously shown to be associated with stature by multiple independent studies, and contains orthologous genes affecting human height. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) for BW in Brazilian Nellore cattle ( Bos primigenius indicus ) was performed using estimated breeding values (EBVs) of 654 progeny-tested bulls genotyped for over 777,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).    Results  The most significant SNP (rs133012258, P GC  = 1.34 × 10 -9 ), located at BTA14:25376827, explained 4.62% of the variance in BW EBVs. The surrounding 1 Mb region presented high identity with human, pig and mouse autosomes 8, 4 and 4, respectively, and contains the orthologous height genes  PLAG1 ,  CHCHD7 ,  MOS ,  RPS20 ,  LYN ,  RDHE2  ( SDR16C5 ) and  PENK . The region also overlapped 28 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) previously reported in literature by linkage mapping studies in cattle, including QTLs for birth weight, mature height, carcass weight, stature, pre-weaning average daily gain, calving ease, and gestation length.    Conclusions  This study presents the first GWAS applying a high-density SNP panel to identify putative chromosome regions affecting birth weight in Nellore cattle. These results suggest that the QTLs on BTA14 associated with body size in taurine cattle ( Bos primigenius taurus ) also affect birth weight and size in zebu cattle ( Bos primigenius indicus ).

Genome-wide association study for birth weight in Nellore cattle points to previously described orthologous genes affecting human and bovine height