Homozygosity for mobile element insertions associated with WBSCR17 could predict success in assistance dog training programs

Dhriti Tandon; Kyra Ressler; Daniel Petticord; Andrea Papa; Juliana Jiranek; Riley Wilkinson; Rebecca Y. Kartzinel; Elaine A. Ostrander; Nathaniel Burney; Carol Borden; Monique A.R. Udell; Bridgett Marie vonHoldt

doi:10.3390/genes10060439

Homozygosity for mobile element insertions associated with WBSCR17 could predict success in assistance dog training programs

Dhriti Tandon, Kyra Ressler, Daniel Petticord, Andrea Papa, Juliana Jiranek, Riley Wilkinson, Rebecca Y. Kartzinel, Elaine A. Ostrander, Nathaniel Burney, Carol Borden, Monique A.R. Udell, Bridgett Marie vonHoldt

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Assistance dog training programs can see as many as 60% of their trainees dismissed. Many training programs utilize behavioral assays prior to admittance to identify likely successful candidates, yet such assays can be insconsistent. Recently, four canine retrotransposon mobile element insertions (MEIs) in or near genes WBSCR17 (Cfa6.6 and Cfa6.7), GTF2I (Cfa6.66) and POM121 (Cfa6.83) were identified in domestic dogs and gray wolves. Variations in these MEIs were significantly associated with a heightened propensity to initiate prolonged social contact or hypersociability. Using our dataset of 837 dogs, 228 of which had paired survey-based behavioral data, we discovered that one of the insertions in WBSCR17 is the most important predictor of dog sociable behaviors related to human proximity, measured by the Canine Behavioral Assessment Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ

Original language	English (US)
Article number	439
Journal	Genes
Volume	10
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10060439
State	Published - Jun 2019

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Genetics
Genetics(clinical)

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Canis
Domestication
Genetics
Hypersociability
Transposons

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Homozygosity for mobile element insertions associated with WBSCR17 could predict success in assistance dog training programs

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