Report of the twenty-fourth GAbridge project journal club, November 3rd, 2026

 

The 24th journal club meeting within the GAbridge project was held on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026. PhD student Ivana Keršić presented the paper "Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for cattle stature identifies common genes that regulate body size in mammals" (Bouwman et al., 2018). In the paper, a meta-analysis was carried out, which determined 163 polymorphic sites in the cattle genome influencing the stature of cattle, and of particular interest to the group is the association of the PLAG1 gene and its influence on the height of cattle. The height prediction model presented in the study was discussed and how our group could apply this model prediction to our ancient samples within the research on cattle domestication.