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Quantitative analysis of the blood transcriptome of young healthy pigs and its relationship with subsequent disease resilience.
BMC genomics - 12 Aug 2021
Lim Kyu-Sang, Cheng Jian, Putz Austin, Dong Qian, Bai Xuechun, Beiki Hamid, Tuggle Christopher K, Dyck Michael K, Canada Pig Gen, Fortin Frederic, Harding John C S, Plastow Graham S, Dekkers Jack C M
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BACKGROUND: Disease resilience, which is the ability of an animal to maintain performance under disease, is important for pigs in commercial herds, where they are exposed to various pathogens. Our objective was to investigate population-level gene expression profiles in the blood of 912 healthy F1 barrows at ~ 27 days of age for associations with performance and health before and after their exposure to a natural...
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