{"id":126089,"date":"2021-08-14T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=126089"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:53:49","slug":"union-minister-releases-indigau-snp-based-chip-for-conservation-of-cattle-breeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-releases-indigau-snp-based-chip-for-conservation-of-cattle-breeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister releases &#8216;IndiGau&#8217; SNP based chip for conservation of cattle breeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1745479\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Union Minister of Science &amp; Technology has launched \u201cIndiGau\u2019.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About IndiGau:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126090\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image004LOJJ.png?resize=261%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>IndiGau <\/strong>is India\u2019s first <strong>Cattle Genomic Chip<\/strong> for the conservation of pure varieties of indigenous cattle breeds like Gir, Kankrej, Sahiwal, Ongole etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developed by<\/strong>: National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NAIB), Hyderabad, an autonomous institution under the aegis of the Department of Biotechnology.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><strong>Significance of IndiGau Chip:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Firstly,<\/strong> IndiGau is purely indigenous and the largest cattle chip in the world. It has 11,496 markers (SNPs) more than that placed on 777K Illumina chips of US &amp; UK breeds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly,<\/strong> the chip will have practical utility in the Government&#8217;s schemes to achieve the goal of conservation of our own breeds with better characteristics and help towards doubling farmers income by 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><strong>About SNP Chip:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>SNP stands for <strong>Single Nucleotide Polymorphism<\/strong>. It is a type of DNA microarray which is used to detect polymorphisms within a population.<\/p>\n<p>SNP chips are\u00a0<b>DNA microarrays that test genetic variation at many hundreds of thousands of specific locations across the genome<\/b>. SNP chips have proven to be excellent for studying common genetic variation, which can be used to assess ancestry as well as predisposition to many complex multifactorial diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB \u00a0What is the News? Union Minister of Science &amp; Technology has launched \u201cIndiGau\u2019. About IndiGau: IndiGau is India\u2019s first Cattle Genomic Chip for the conservation of pure varieties of indigenous cattle breeds like Gir, Kankrej, Sahiwal, Ongole etc. Developed by: National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NAIB), Hyderabad, an autonomous institution under the aegis&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-releases-indigau-snp-based-chip-for-conservation-of-cattle-breeds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister releases &#8216;IndiGau&#8217; SNP based chip for conservation of cattle breeds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[8950,9130,9129,9131],"class_list":["post-126089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-bio-technology","tag-cattle-genomic-chip","tag-genome-editing","tag-indigau","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704905867},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}