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Identification of genes for controlling swine adipose deposition by integrating transcriptome, whole-genome resequencing, and quantitative trait loci data.
Scientific reports - 21 Mar 2016
Xing Kai, Zhu Feng, Zhai LiWei, Chen ShaoKang, Tan Zhen, Sun YangYang, Hou ZhuoCheng, Wang ChuDuan
Abstract excerpt
Backfat thickness is strongly associated with meat quality, fattening efficiency, reproductive performance, and immunity in pigs. Fat storage and fatty acid synthesis mainly occur in adipose tissue. Therefore, we used a high-throughput massively parallel sequencing approach to identify transcriptomes in adipose tissue, and whole-genome differences from three full-sibling pairs of pigs with opposite (high and low)...
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