Article
Fat-tail allele-specific expression genes may affect fat deposition in tail of sheep.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2024
Mansourizadeh Hossein, Bakhtiarizadeh Mohammad Reza, de Almeida Regitano Luciana Correia, Bruscadin Jennifer Jessica
Abstract excerpt
Different sheep breeds show distinct phenotypic plasticity in fat deposition in the tails. The genetic background underlying fat deposition in the tail of sheep is complex, multifactorial, and may involve allele-specific expression (ASE) mechanism to modulate allelic expression. ASE is a common phenomenon in mammals and refers to allelic imbalanced expression modified by cis-regulatory genetic variants that can...
Topics
- Animals
- Alleles
- Tail
- Sheep
- Adipose Tissue
- Transcriptome
- Gene Expression Regulation
