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              2. Cluster of differentiation 14 gene 
              polymorphism and its association with incidence of clinical 
              mastitis in Karan fries cattle -  
              A. Sakthivel Selvan, 
              I. D. Gupta, A. Verma, M. V. Chaudhari and V. Kumar 
              
              Veterinary World, 7(12): 1037-1040   
              
   
                
                
doi: 
              10.14202/vetworld.2014.1037-1040 
                  A. 
              Sakthivel Selvan: 
              
              Molecular Genetics Lab, Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National 
              Dairy Research Institute, Karnal - 132 001, Haryana, India;
              
              
              drasakthivel1987@gmail.com I. D. 
              Gupta: 
              
              Molecular Genetics Lab, Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National 
              Dairy Research Institute, Karnal - 132 001, Haryana, India;
              
              
              idgupta1959@gmail.com A. 
              Verma: 
              
              Molecular Genetics Lab, Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National 
              Dairy Research Institute, Karnal - 132 001, Haryana, India;
              
              
              archana.ndri@gmail.com M. V. 
              Chaudhari: 
              
              Molecular Genetics Lab, Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National 
              Dairy Research Institute, Karnal - 132 001, Haryana, India;
              
              
              mvet99@gmail.com V. 
              Kumar: Molecular Genetics Lab, Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, 
              National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal - 132 001, Haryana, 
              India;
              
              vetvkt1986@gmail.com   Received: 
              06-08-2014, Revised: 04-11-2014, Accepted: 07-11-2014, Published 
              Online: 04-12-2014   
              
              
              Corresponding author:
              
              I. D. Gupta, e-mail: idgupta1959@gmail.com 
 
              Abstract 
 Aim:
              The present study was undertaken with the objectives to 
              characterize, identify DNA polymorphism in cluster of 
              differentiation 14 (CD14) gene in Karan Fries (KF) cattle and to 
              analyze association between genetic variants with incidence of 
              clinical mastitis in National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) 
              herd, Karnal. 
              Materials and Methods: Genomic DNA was extracted using blood 
              of randomly selected hundred KF lactating cattle by 
              phenol-chloroform method. After checking its quality and quantity, 
              polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was carried out using reported 
              primers to amplify 832 base pair region covering nucleotide base 
              position number 1012 to 1843 (part of promoter, 5’UTR, exon 1, 
              intron 1 and part of exon 2) of bovine CD14 gene. The PCR 
              amplified target product was purified, sequenced and further 
              ClustalW analysis was done to align edited sequence with reported
              Bos taurus sequence (EU148610.1). The restriction fragment 
              length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis was performed for each KF cow 
              using HinfI restriction enzyme (RE). Cows were assigned 
              genotypes obtained by PCR-RFLP analysis and association study was 
              done using Chi-square (χ2) test. 
              Results: After PCR amplification, DNA sequencing of amplicon 
              confirmed the 832 bases covering 1012 to 1843 nucleotide base 
              position of bovine CD14 gene. ClustalW multiple sequence alignment 
              program for DNA revealed six nucleotide changes in KF cows at 
              positions T1117D, T1239G, T1291C, G1359C, G1361A, and G1811A. Cows 
              were also screened using PCR-RFLP with HinfI RE, which 
              revealed three genotypes CC, CD and DD that differed significantly 
              regarding mastitis incidence. Within CC genotype, 72.73% of cows 
              were in a mastitis non-affected group whereas, those in CD and DD 
              genotypes 69.44% and 60.38% respectively were mastitis affected. 
              Conclusion: KF cows with allele C of CD14 gene were less 
              susceptibility to mastitis compared with D allele. 
              Keywords: cluster of differentiation 14, Hinf1, Karan 
              Fries, mastitis, restriction fragment length polymorphism, single 
              nucleotide polymorphism. 
 
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