Alison Van Eennnaam's Selected Publications

Recent Publications (2011-2019)

Pohlmeier, W., R. C. Hovey, and A. L. Van Eenennaam. 2011. Reproductive abnormalities in mice expressing omega-3 fatty acid desaturase in their mammary glands. Transgenic Research. 20:283-92.

Wong, A.C., and A. L. Van Eenennaam. 2011. FLPe functions in zebrafish embryos. Transgenic Research. 20:409–415.

Van Eenennaam, A. L., J.H. van der Werf, and M.E. Goddard. 2011. The value of using DNA markers for beef bull selection in the seedstock sector. Journal of Animal Science. 89:307-320.

Van Eenennaam, A. L. E. M. Hallerman, and W.M. Muir. 2011. The Science and Regulation of Food from Genetically Engineered Animals. Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Commentary QTA2011-2. CAST, Ames, Iowa.

Cooprider, K. L., F. M. Mitloehner, T. R. Famula, E. Kebreab, Y. Zhao, and A. L. Van Eenennaam. 2011. Feedlot efficiency implications on greenhouse gas emissions and sustainability. Journal of Animal Science. 89:2643-56

Van Eenennaam, A. L. 2011. Beef translational genomics: Lessons from the literature. Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics. 19: 271-278.

Van Eenennaam, A.L. and W.M. Muir. 2011. Transgenic salmon: a final leap to the grocery shelf? Nature Biotechnology. 29: 706–710

Rincon, G., K.L. Weber, A.L. Van Eenennaam, B.L. Golden, and J.F. Medrano. 2011. Performance of bovine high density genotyping platforms in Holsteins and Jerseys. Journal of Dairy Science. 94: 6116–6121.

Q. Duan, R. G. Tait Jr, M.S. Mayes, D J. Garrick, Q. Liu, A. L. Van Eenennaam, R.G. Mateescu, D.L.Van Overbeke, A.J. Garmyn, D.C. Beitz, and J.M. Reecy. 2012. Genetic polymorphisms in bovine transferrin receptor 2 (TFR2) and solute carrier family 40 (iron-regulated transporter), member 1 (SLC40A1) genes and their association with beef iron content. Animal Genetics. 4:115-22.

Van Eenennaam, A. L., and D. J. Drake. 2012. Where in the beef cattle supply chain might DNA tests generate value? Livestock Production Science. 52(3) 185-196.

Mateescu RG, Garmyn AJ, O'Neil MA, Tait RG Jr, Abuzaid A, Mayes MS, Garrick DJ, Van Eenennaam AL, Vanoverbeke DL, Hilton GG, Beitz DC, Reecy JM. 2012. Genetic parameters for carnitine, creatine, creatinine, carnosine, and anserine concentration in longissimus muscle and their association with palatability traits in Angus cattle.  Journal of Animal Science. 90:4248-4255.

Weber, K. L., R. M. Thallman, J. W. Keele, W. M. Snelling, G. L. Bennett, T. P. L. Smith, T. G. McDaneld, M. F. Allan, A. L. Van Eenennaam, and L. A. Kuehn. 2012.  Accuracy of genomic breeding values in multi-breed beef cattle populations derived from deregressed breeding values and phenotypes. Journal of Animal Science. 90:4191-4202

Weber, K. L., D. J. Drake, J. F. Taylor, D. J. Garrick, L.A. Kuehn, R. M. Thallman, R. D. Schnabel, W. M. Snelling, E. J. Pollak, A. L. Van Eenennaam. 2012. The accuracies of DNA-based genetic merit prediction equations derived from Angus- and multi-breed beef cattle training populations. Journal of Animal Science. 90:4177-4190.

Mateescu, RG, Garmyn, AJ, Tait, RG, Duan, Q, Liu, Q, Mayes, MS, Garrick, DJ, Van Eenennaam, AL, Vanoverbeke, DL, Hilton, GG, Beitz, DC, Reecy, JM. 2013. Genetic parameters for concentrations of minerals in longissimus muscle and their associations with palatability traits in Angus cattle. Journal of Animal Science, 91: 1067-75.

Mateescu, RG, Garrick, DJ, Tait, RG, Garmyn, AJ, Duan, Q, Liu, Q, Mayes, MS, Van Eenennaam, AL, Vanoverbeke, DL, Hilton, GG, Beitz, DC, Reecy, JM. 2013. Genome-wide association study of concentrations of iron and other minerals in longissimus muscle. Journal of Animal Science, 91: 3593-3600.

Van Eenennaam, A.L., W. M. Muir, and E. A. Hallerman. 2013. Is Unaccountable Regulatory Delay and Political Interference Undermining the FDA and Hurting American Competitiveness? A Response to Tim Schwab’s ‘Is FDA Ready to Regulate the World’s First Biotech Food Animal’? The Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) Food and Drug Policy Forum. Volume 3 (12) July 24, 2013.

Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2013. GMOs in Animal Agriculture: Time to Include a Risk: Benefit Analysis in Regulatory Decisions. Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. 4:37.

McClure, M.C., T. S. SonstegardG. R. WiggansA. L. Van Eenennaam, K. L. Weber, M. C. Torres Penedo, D. Berry, J. Flynn, J. F. Garcia, A. Santana Carmo, L. C.A. Regitano, M. Albuquerque, M. V. G. B Silva, M. A. Machado,  M. Coffey, K. Moore, M.-Y. Boscher, L. Genestout, R. Mazza,  J. F. Taylor, R. D. Schnabel, B. Simpson, E. Marques, J. McEwan,  A. Cromie, L. Lehmann Coutinho, L. Kuehn, J. Keele, E. Piper,  J. Cook, R. Williams, C. Van Tassell. 2013. "Imputation of Microsatellite Alleles from Dense SNP Genotypes for Parentage Verification Across Multiple Bos taurus and Bos indicus breeds" Frontiers in Livestock Genomics. 4: 1-11.

Van Eenennaam, A. L., K. L. Weber, and D. J. Drake. 2013. The California Commercial Ranch Project. Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG). 20: 10-13.

Van Eenennaam, A.L., K. A. Weigel, A. E. Young, M. A. Cleveland, and J. C. M. Dekkers 2014. Applied Animal Genomics: Results from the Field.  Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 2:105—139.

Van Eenennaam, A.L., K. L. Weber, and D. J. Drake. 2014. Evaluation of bull prolificacy on commercial beef cattle ranches using DNA paternity analysis. Journal of Animal Science. 92:2693-701.

Van Eenennaam, A.L., B.M. Chassy, N. Kalaitzandonakes, and T.P. Redick. 2014. The Potential Impacts of Mandatory Labeling for Genetically Engineered Food in the United States. Issue Paper 54. Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST). Ames, Iowa.

Van Eenennaam, A. L., and A. Young. 2014. Prevalence and impacts of genetically engineered feedstuffs on livestock populations. Journal of Animal Science. 92:4255-4278.

Love, W. J., T. W. Lehenbauer, P. H. Kass, A. L. Van Eenennaam, and S. S. Aly. 2014. Development of a novel clinical scoring system for on-farm diagnosis of bovine respiratory disease in pre-weaned dairy calves. PeerJ 2: e238.

Neibergs HL, Seabury CM, Wojtowicz AJ, Wang Z, Scraggs E, Kiser J, Neupane M, Womack JE, Van Eenennaam A, Hagevoort GR, Lehenbauer TW, Aly S, Davis J, Taylor JF. 2014. Susceptibility loci revealed for bovine respiratory disease complex in pre-weaned Holstein calves. BMC Genomics. 2014 Dec 22; 15(1):1164.

Van Eenennaam, A., Neibergs, H, Seabury, C. Taylor, J., Wang, Z., Scraggs, E., Schnabel, R.D.,  Decker, J., Wojtowicz, A., Aly, S., Davis, J., Blanchard, P., Crossley, B., Rossitto, P., Lehenbauer, T., Hagevoort, R., Chavez, E., Neibergs, J.S., Womack, J.E. 2014. Results of the BRD CAP: progress toward identifying genetic markers associated with BRD susceptibility. Animal Health Research Reviews 15(2): 157-160.

Aly, S., Love, W., Williams, D., Lehenbauer, T., Van Eenennaam, A., Drake, C., Kass, P., Farver, T. 2014. Agreement between bovine respiratory disease scoring systems for pre-weaned dairy calves. Animal Health Research Reviews 15(2): 148-150.

Ng, TF, Kondov, NO, Deng, X, Van Eenennaam, A, Neibergs, HL, Delwart, E.  2015. A metagenomics and case-control study to identify viruses associated with bovine respiratory disease. Journal of Virology. 89(10): 5340-9.

Gershwin, L. J., Van Eenennaam, A.L., Anderson, M. L., Heather A McEligot, H. A., Matt X Shao, M. X., Toaff-Rosenstein, R., Taylor, J. F., Neibergs, H. L. 2015. Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex: developing a tissue resource for RNA sequence analysis of disease response. PLoS One 10(11): e0142479.

Tizioto, P., Kim, J., Seabury, C., Schnabel, R., Gershwin, L., Van Eenennaam, A., Roaff-Rosenstein, R., Neibergs, H., Taylor, J. 2015. Immunological Response to Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex: An RNA-sequence analysis of the bronchial lymph node transcriptome. PLoS One 10(6): e0131459.

Welly, B.T., MacNeil, M.D., McClain, A.R., Raymond, R.C., Simpson, E.B, and A.L. Van Eenennaam. 2015. A public:private collaboration to evaluate the potential value of genomic information to a vertically-integrated commercial beef cattle enterprise. Proceedings 21st Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG).  September 28-30, 2015, Lorne, Victoria, Australia, 21: 213-216.

Van Eenennaam, A.L. and A.E. Young. 2015. Animal agriculture and the importance of agnostic governance of biotechnology. Agriculture and Food Security 4(21): 1-10.

Murray, J.D., Ross, P.J., Van Eenennaam, A.L. and E.A. Maga. 2016. Ten transgenic animal research conferences and counting.  Transgenic Res. 25: 271-272.

Love, W.J., Lehenbauer, T.W., Karle, B.M., Hulbert, L.E., Anderson, R.J., Van Eenennaam, A.L., Farver, T.B., Aly, S.S.. 2016. Survey of management practices related to bovine respiratory disease in preweaned calves on California dairies, Journal of Dairy Science 99(2): 1483-1494.  http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2015-9394

Love, W.J., Lehenbauer, T.W., Van Eenennaam, A.L., Drake, C.M., Kass, P.H., Farver, T.B., Aly, S.S. 2016. Sensitivity and Specificity of On-Farm Scoring Systems and Nasal Culture to Detect Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex in Pre-weaned Dairy Calves. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 28(2): 119-128. http://vdi.sagepub.com/content/28/2/119

Weber, K.L., Welly, B.T., Van Eenennaam, A.L., Young, A.E., Portoneto, L.R., Reverter, A., Rincon, G. Identification of gene networks for residual feed intake in Angus cattle using genomic prediction and RNA-seq. PLoS One 11(3): e0152274. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0152274

Carroll, D., Van Eenennaam, A., Taylor, J.R., Seger, J., Voytas, D. 2016. Regulate genome-edited products, not genome editing itself. Nature Biotechnology. 34(5):477-479.

Petracca, Y., Van Eenennaam, A.L., Lema, M.A. 2016. Gene Editing: Do not forget about Animal Agriculture. Journal of Advanced Research in Biotechnology. 1(1):1-2. http://www.symbiosisonlinepublishing.com/biotechnology/biotechnology09.pdf

Buchanan, J.W., MacNeil, M.D., Raymond, R.C., McClain, A.R., Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2016. Variance component estimates for Charolais-sired fed cattle and relative economic impact of bovine respiratory disease. Journal of Animal Science. 94:1-6. https://academic.oup.com/jas/article/94/12/5456/4703603

Buchanan, J.W., James, S.T., Marquess, F.L., Woronuk, G.N., Deobald, H., Welly, B.T., Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2016. Analysis of validated and population specific SNP parentage panels in pedigreed and commercial beef cattle populations. Canadian Journal of Animal Science. 97(2): 231-240. http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/CJAS-2016-0143#.WFA2BOYrKUk

Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2017. Genetic Modification of Food Animals. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 44:27-34. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166916302348

Welly, B.T., Miller, M.R., Stott, J.L., Blanchard, M.T., Islas-Trejo, A.D., O’Rourke, S.M., Young, A.E., Medrano, J.F., Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2017. Identification of antigenic proteins from the etiologic agent of epizootic bovine abortion using de novo assembly, reverse vaccinology and immunological validation of candidate proteins. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 7(2): 321-331. https://www.g3journal.org/content/7/2/321.full

Van Eenennaam, A.L. and A.E. Young. 2017. Detection of dietary DNA, protein and glyphosate in meat, milk and eggs. Journal of Animal Science. 95(7): 3247-3269. https://academic.oup.com/jas/article/95/7/3247/4702986

Owen, J.R., Noyes, N., Young, A.E., Prince, D.J., Blanchard, P.C., Lehenbauer, T.W., Aly, S.S., Davis, J.H., O’Rourke, S.M., Abdo, Z., Belk, K., Miller, M.R., Morley, P., Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2017. Whole-Genome Sequencing and Concordance Between Antimicrobial Susceptibility Genotypes and Phenotypes of Bacterial Isolates Associated with Bovine Respiratory Disease. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 7:3059-307: http://www.g3journal.org/content/7/9/3059

Behura SK, Tizioto PC, Kim J, Grupioni NV, Seabury CM, Schnabel RD, Gershwin LJ, Van Eenennaam AL, Toaff-Rosenstein R, Neibergs HL, Regitano LCA, Taylor JF. 2017. Tissue Tropism in Host Transcriptional Response to Members of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex. Sci Rep. 20;7(1):17938. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18205-0

Van Eenennaam, AL. 2018. The Importance of a Novel Product Risk-Based Trigger for Gene-Editing Regulation in Food Animal Species. The CRISPR Journal 1(2): 1-6. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/crispr.2017.0023

Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2018. The future of genetic alteration in food animal production. OIE Scientific and Technical Review 37(1).

Buchanan, J., MacNeil, M.D., Raymond, R.C., Nilles, A.R., Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2018 Comparison of economic returns among genetic evaluation strategies in a 2-tiered Charolais-sired beef cattle production system. Journal of Animal Science 96(10):4076-4086. https://academic.oup.com/jas/article/96/10/4076/5056629?guestAccessKey=92bed747-7979-4084-962b-c035fa878420

Kern C, Wang Y, Chitwood J, Korf I, Delany M, Cheng H, Medrano JF, Van Eenennaam AL, Ernst C, Ross P, Zhou H. 2018. Genome-wide identification of tissue-specific long non-coding RNA in three farm animal species. BMC Genomics 19(1): 684. (Link)

Van Eenennaam, A.L. and A.E. Young. 2018. Gene Editing in Livestock: Promise, Prospects and Policy. CAB Reviews 13(27). (Link)

Van Eenennaam, A.L. and A.E. Young. 2018. Public Perception of Animal Biotechnology. In Animal Biotechnology, Vol 2. H. Nieman and C. Wrenzycki, eds. pp.275-303. (Link)

Karle, B.M., Maier, G.U., Love, W.J., Dubrovsky, S.A., Williams, D.R., Anderson, R.J., Van Eenennaam, A.L., Lehenbauer, T.W., Aly, S.S. 2018. Regional management practices and prevalence of bovine respiratory disease in California's preweaned dairy calves. Journal of Dairy Science. In Press. Available online. (Link)

Van Eenennaam, A.L. and A.E. Young. 2019. Genetic Improvement of Food Animals: Past and Future. In Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability. P. Ferranti, E. M. Berry and J. R. Anderson, eds. Vol. 3:171-180. (Link)

Moisá SJ, Aly SS, Lehenbauer TW, Love WJ, Rossitto PV, Van Eenennaam AL, Trombetta SC, Bortoluzzi EM, Hulbert LE. 2019. Association of plasma haptoglobin concentration and other biomarkers with bovine respiratory disease status in pre-weaned dairy calves. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 31(1): 40-46. (Link)

Mueller, M.L., Cole, J.B., Sonstegard, T.S., Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2019. Comparison of gene editing vs. conventional breeding to introgress the POLLED allele into the U.S. dairy cattle population. Journal of Dairy Science. In Press. Available online. (Link)

Van Eenennaam, A.L. and A.E. Young. 2019. Gene Editing in Dairy Cattle. In Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science: Advances in breeding of dairy cattle, J. van der Werf and J.E Pryce, eds. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. In Press.

Young, A.E., Macaulay, L.T., Larson, S.R., Van Eenennaam, A.L. 2019. Livestock Impact on Biodiversity. In Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity, P. Gustafson, ed., The University of Missouri Press. In Press. 

Van Eenennaam, A.L.2019. The Uses of Animal Biotechnology to Improve Animal Welfare. In The Welfare of Cattle, T. Engle, D. J. Klingborg, DVM, and B. E. Rollin, eds. pp. 51-59. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. (Link)

Van Eenennaam, A.L., Wells, K.D. and Murray, J.D. 2019 Proposed U.S. regulation of gene-edited food animals is not fit for purpose. npj Science of Food, 3(3).