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Entropion is an inward rolling of the eyelid allowing contact between the eyelashes and cornea that may lead to blindness if not corrected. Although many mammalian species, including humans and dogs, are afflicted by congenital entropion, no specific genes or gene regions related to development of entropion have been reported in any mammalian species to date. Entropion in domestic sheep is known to have a genetic component therefore, we used domestic sheep as a model system to identify genomic regions containing genes associated with entropion. A genome-wide association was conducted with congenital entropion in 998 Columbia, Polypay, and Rambouillet sheep genotyped with 50,000 SNP markers. Prevalence of entropion was 6.01%, with all breeds represented. Logistic regression was performed in PLINK with additive allelic, recessive, dominant, and genotypic inheritance models. Two genome-wide significant (empirical P<0.05) SNP were identified, specifically markers in  SLC2A9  (empirical P = 0.007; genotypic model) and near  NLN  (empirical P = 0.026; dominance model). Six additional genome-wide suggestive SNP (nominal P<1x10 -5 ) were identified including markers in or near  PIK3CB  (P = 2.22x10 -6 ; additive model),  KCNB1  (P = 2.93x10 -6 ; dominance model), ZC3H12C (P = 3.25x10 -6 ; genotypic model), JPH1 (P = 4.68x20 -6 ; genotypic model), and  MYO3B  (P = 5.74x10 -6 ; recessive model). This is the first report of specific gene regions associated with congenital entropion in any mammalian species, to our knowledge. Further, none of these genes have previously been associated with any eyelid traits. These results represent the first genome-wide analysis of gene regions associated with entropion and provide target regions for the development of sheep genetic markers for marker-assisted selection.

Genome-Wide Association Identifies SLC2A9 and NLN Gene Regions as Associated with Entropion in Domestic Sheep