• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.294-302
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• 2020

대표적인 메타 휴리스틱 알고리즘 중 하나인 유전알고리즘은 생명체의 자연 진화 과정을 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션하며 이 과정에서 선택, 교차, 그리고 돌연변이가 수행된다. 이 과정에서 유전알고리즘은 정의길이가 짧고, 차수가 낮은 반면, 높은 적응도를 갖는 스키마타의 병렬배열에 의해 최적해에 근접해 간다. 본 연구에서는 유전알고리즘의 핵심 작동원리 중 하나인 빌딩블록가설과 상수관망 시스템이 가지고 있는 공학적, 수리학적 특성을 동시에 고려한 최적해 효율성 제고의 가능성을 살펴보고자 하였다. 즉, 공학적 문제 해결에 있어 유전알고리즘 수행을 위한 유전자의 배치순서에 따른 최적화 결과의 효율성을 평가하였다. 공학적 문제로 상수관로 최적설계 문제를 선택하여 적용하였으며, 유전자 배치순서는 기존배치, 네트워크 위상 기반 배치, 그리고 유량크기 기반 배치로 구분하여 공학적 특이성을 반영하였다. 적용결과 유량 크기 기반 배치를 적용한 최적화 결과가 기존배치에 비하여 평균적으로 약 2-3% 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 이것은, 실제 공학 최적화 문제의 적용성과 효율성을 증대시키기 위해서는 명확한 사전지식(수리학적 특성 등)을 활용하여 가능한 이와 같은 우수한해의 특성이 소멸되지 않도록 하는 장치가 반드시 필요하다는 것을 의미한다. 제안된 방법론은, 향후 대규모 상수관망 최적설계에 있어 효율성 제고를 위한 방안으로 활용이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Genetic Medicine
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.38-42
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the characteristics of achondroplasia (ACH) diagnosed in fetuses or neonates and to evaluate the usefulness of a molecular genetic testing to confirm ACH. Materials and Methods: The medical and ultrasonographic records of 16 pregnant women, who had molecular genetic testing for ACH performed on their fetus or neonate at the Cheil General Hospital between February 1999 and April 2013, were retrospectively analyzed. Detection of G1138A and G1138C mutations of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) gene was accomplished by polymerase chain reaction - restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Results: Of the eight fetuses and two neonates who were suspected of having ACH during pregnancy, four fetuses and one neonate was confirmed to have ACH and they all carried the heterozygous G1138A mutation. Out of 6 cases which had a history of ACH in prior pregnancies, three had genetic information for the previous fetuses while the other three did not. All six fetuses had no mutations at G380R. However, the one fetus of pregnant woman with non-confirmed ACH showed shortened long bone on ultrasound thereafter and the fetus was identified as having oto-spondylo-megaepiphyseal dysplasia after birth. Conclusion: Korean patients with achondroplasia have the heterozygous G1138A mutation that is most commonly defined in other countries. Molecular genetic evaluations of ACH are helpful not only for establishing diagnosis but for appropriate counseling with subsequent pregnancies.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.433-439
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• 2020

본 연구는 초음파 유래 OPU (Ovum Pick-Up) 기술을 이용하여 엘크 암사슴의 개량 및 활용성 증진을 위해 엘크 암사슴 난자를 채취하였다. 비번식 계절시기에도 체외 수정란이 생산 가능한지 확인하기 위하여 OPU 초음파 진단기를 이용하여 사슴 난소에서 난포를 흡입한 후 난자를 회수 하였다. 총 85개의 난포를 흡입 한 결과 57개의 난자가 회수되어 67.1%의 회수율을 나타내었다. 난자의 등급을 평가한 결과 A 등급 14.0%, B 등급 19.2%, C 등급 15.7% 및 D 등급 50.8%로 조사되었다. 본 연구에서는 A~C 등급의 난자를 이용하여 체외성숙, 체외수정 및 체외배양을 실시하였다. 총 28개의 난자를 이용하여 67.9% (19/28)의 수정율을 보였으며 배반포 발달율은 14.3% (4/28)로 나타났다. 본 연구 결과를 토대로 하여 볼 때, 계절번식을 하는 것으로 알려져 있는 엘크에 초음파 유래 OPU 방법이 적용 가능한 것으로 확인하였다. 따라서, 향후 추가적인 연구를 통해 체외수정과 체외배양 효율을 보다 향상시킨다면 엘크 수정란 이식을 통해 사슴의 개량기반 구축과 암사슴의 활용성 향상에 기여 할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.151-156
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• 2008

본 연구는 임의회귀모형을 이용하여 한우 거세우 체중에 대해서 유전모수 추정을 하고 이것을 단형질 개체모형의 결과와 비교해 보고자 실시하였다. 분석에 이용한 자료는 총 1,372두의 한우 거세우의 체중 자료로, 농협중앙회 가축개량사업소에서 실시한 한우 후대검정우의 기록이다. 이차의 임의회귀 모형에 적용한 결과 유전력이 총 800일령까지의 검정기간에 대해 0.17~0.30의 범위로 나타났다. 개체모형을 통해 얻은 유전력은 0.24~0.36의 범위로 나타났다. 측정일간의 영구환경효과의 상관은 검정일령이 늘어남에 따라 함께 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 반면, 측정일간의 유전상관의 경우 검정초기에는 0.30 정도의 약한 음의 상관을 보이지만, 검정이 이뤄짐에 따라 상관이 점차 증가하여 검정이 종료될 무렵이면 거의 고정되는 것으로 나타났다. 임의회귀모형과 개체모형의 결과를 비교해보면 두가지 모형 모두 비슷한 경향을 보여 큰 차이를 보이지 않았다. 따라서, 임의회귀모형을 한우에 대한 국가유전능력평가에 사용하는 것이 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제32권12호
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• pp.1836-1843
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• 2019

Objective: Social genetic effects (SGE) are an important genetic component for growth, group productivity, and welfare in pigs. The present study was conducted to evaluate i) the feasibility of the single-step genomic best linear unbiased prediction (ssGBLUP) approach with the inclusion of SGE in the model in pigs, and ii) the changes in the contribution of heritable SGE to the phenotypic variance with different scaling ${\omega}$ constants for genomic relationships. Methods: The dataset included performance tested growth rate records (average daily gain) from 13,166 and 21,762 pigs Landrace (LR) and Yorkshire (YS), respectively. A total of 1,041 (LR) and 964 (YS) pigs were genotyped using the Illumina PorcineSNP60 v2 BeadChip panel. With the BLUPF90 software package, genetic parameters were estimated using a modified animal model for competitive traits. Giving a fixed weight to pedigree relationships (${\tau}:1$), several weights (${\omega}_{xx}$, 0.1 to 1.0; with a 0.1 interval) were scaled with the genomic relationship for best model fit with Akaike information criterion (AIC). Results: The genetic variances and total heritability estimates ($T^2$) were mostly higher with ssGBLUP than in the pedigree-based analysis. The model AIC value increased with any level of ${\omega}$ other than 0.6 and 0.5 in LR and YS, respectively, indicating the worse fit of those models. The theoretical accuracies of direct and social breeding value were increased by decreasing ${\omega}$ in both breeds, indicating the better accuracy of ${\omega}_{0.1}$ models. Therefore, the optimal values of ${\omega}$ to minimize AIC and to increase theoretical accuracy were 0.6 in LR and 0.5 in YS. Conclusion: In conclusion, single-step ssGBLUP model fitting SGE showed significant improvement in accuracy compared with the pedigree-based analysis method; therefore, it could be implemented in a pig population for genomic selection based on SGE, especially in South Korean populations, with appropriate further adjustment of tuning parameters for relationship matrices.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제65권4호
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• pp.720-734
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• 2023

In Korea, Korea Proven Bulls (KPN) program has been well-developed. Breeding and evaluation of cows are also an essential factor to increase earnings and genetic gain. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of cow breeding value by using three methods (pedigree index [PI], pedigree-based best linear unbiased prediction [PBLUP], and genomic-BLUP [GBLUP]). The reference population (n = 16,971) was used to estimate breeding values for 481 females as a test population. The accuracy of GBLUP was 0.63, 0.66, 0.62 and 0.63 for carcass weight (CWT), eye muscle area (EMA), back-fat thickness (BFT), and marbling score (MS), respectively. As for the PBLUP method, accuracy of prediction was 0.43 for CWT, 0.45 for EMA, 0.43 for MS, and 0.44 for BFT. Accuracy of PI method was the lowest (0.28 to 0.29 for carcass traits). The increase by approximate 20% in accuracy of GBLUP method than other methods could be because genomic information may explain Mendelian sampling error that pedigree information cannot detect. Bias can cause reducing accuracy of estimated breeding value (EBV) for selected animals. Regression coefficient between true breeding value (TBV) and GBLUP EBV, PBLUP EBV, and PI EBV were 0.78, 0.625, and 0.35, respectively for CWT. This showed that genomic EBV (GEBV) is less biased than PBLUP and PI EBV in this study. In addition, number of effective chromosome segments (M_e) statistic that indicates the independent loci is one of the important factors affecting the accuracy of BLUP. The correlation between M_e and the accuracy of GBLUP is related to the genetic relationship between reference and test population. The correlations between M_e and accuracy were -0.74 in CWT, -0.75 in EMA, -0.73 in MS, and -0.75 in BF, which were strongly negative. These results proved that the estimation of genetic ability using genomic data is the most effective, and the smaller the M_e, the higher the accuracy of EBV.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.24.1-24.4
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• 2018

Taxonomic identification is fundamental to all microbiology studies. Particularly in metagenomics, which identifies the composition of microorganisms using thousands of sequences, its importance is even greater. Identification is inevitably affected by the choice of database. This study was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of three widely used 16S databases-Greengenes, Silva, and EzBioCloud-and to suggest basic guidelines for selecting reference databases. Using public mock community data, each database was used to assign taxonomy and to test its accuracy. We show that EzBioCloud performs well compared with other existing databases.

• 비만대사연구학술지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2022

While the rising epidemic of obesity is primarily attributed to a sedentary lifestyle, poor dietary habits, and the aging of the population, secondary causes of obesity generally go undetected and untreated. These include endocrinological disorders, such as Cushing's syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome, hypothalamic obesity, hypogonadism, and hypothyroidism, as well as genetic, syndromic, and drug-related obesity. We present an overview of the major disorders associated with obesity, highlighting the pathophysiologic mechanisms and discussing the diagnostic and treatment strategies that are most helpful to practicing physicians in recognizing and treating these generally under-detected and undertreated disorders.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제65권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2023

Pork is known as one of the preferred part of meat worldwide. Especially, the belly, known as 'Samgyeopsal' in South Korea, has been preferred by consumers in South Korea. Pork belly contained various component muscles, intermuscular and subcutaneous fat. The high-fat belly cut (containing 50%-60% fat ratio) has a low preference in South Korea whereas, the standard belly cut (20%-40% fat ratio) of the consumer preference was different. In addition, the evaluation system focused on lean meat production, represented by loin eye area and back fat thickness. In this review, we discussed the pork belly structure, phenotypic correlation with lean meat production ability and meat quality, and genetic potential to confirm to possibility of application to pig breeding. Moreover, the confirmed possibilities considered that could be a base on the evaluation of standard for the pork belly as an economic trait.

• 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2004

The validation of many synthetic chemicals that may pose a genetic hazard in our environment is of great concern at present. Since these substances are not limited to the original products, and enter the environment, they have become widespread environmental pollutants, thus leading to a variety of chemicals that possibly threaten the public health. In this respect, the regulation and evaluation of the chemical hazard playa very important role to environment and human health. The clastogenicity of 11 synthetic chemicals was evaluated in Chinese hamster lung (CHL) fibroblast in vitro. Benzoyl chloride (CAS No. 98-88-4) induced chromosomal aberrations with statistical significance at the concentration of 31-123 $\mug/ml$ and 43 $\mug/ml$ in the absence and presence of S-9 metabolic activation system, respectively. 2-Propyn-l-o1 (CAS No. 107-19-7) and 2-Phenoxy ethanol (CAS No. 122-99-6) revealed clastogenicity only at the highest concentration in the presence of S-9 mixture. However, 1-naphthol (CAS No. 90-15-3) which is one of the most cytotoxic chemical among 11 chemicals tested revealed no clastogenicity both in the presence and absence of S-9 metabolic activation system. From the results of chromosomal aberration assay with 11 synthetic chemicals in CHL fibroblast in vitro, Benzoyl chloride (CAS No. 98-88-4), 2-Propyn-l-01 (CAS No. 107-19-7) and 2-Phenoxy ethanol (CAS No. 122-99-6) revealed positive clastogenic results in this study.