A multi-tissue atlas of regulatory variants in cattle

S Liu, Y Gao, O Canela-Xandri, S Wang, Y Yu, W Cai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of genetic regulatory variants acting on livestock gene expression
is essential for interpreting the molecular mechanisms underlying traits of economic value …

Advancing fish breeding in aquaculture through genome functional annotation

IA Johnston, MP Kent, P Boudinot, M Looseley… - Aquaculture, 2024 - Elsevier
Genomics is increasingly applied in breeding programmes for farmed fish and shellfish
species around the world. However, current applications do not include information on …

Identification of genomic variants causing variation in quantitative traits: a review

T Meuwissen, B Hayes, I MacLeod, M Goddard - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many of the important traits of livestock are complex or quantitative traits controlled by
thousands of variants in the DNA sequence of individual animals and environmental factors …

Genetic variation in histone modifications and gene expression identifies regulatory variants in the mammary gland of cattle

CP Prowse-Wilkins, TJ Lopdell, R Xiang… - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Causal variants for complex traits, such as eQTL are often found in non-coding
regions of the genome, where they are hypothesised to influence phenotypes by regulating …

Gene expression and RNA splicing explain large proportions of the heritability for complex traits in cattle

R Xiang, L Fang, S Liu, IM Macleod, Z Liu, EJ Breen… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Many quantitative trait loci (QTLs) are in non-coding regions. Therefore, QTLs are assumed
to affect gene regulation. Gene expression and RNA splicing are primary steps of …

Comparative epigenomics reveals the impact of ruminant-specific regulatory elements on complex traits

S Chen, S Liu, S Shi, Y Jiang, M Cao, Y Tang, W Li… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Insights into the genetic basis of complex traits and disease in both human and
livestock species have been achieved over the past decade through detection of genetic …

A comprehensive catalogue of regulatory variants in the cattle transcriptome

S Liu, Y Gao, O Canela-Xandri, S Wang, Y Yu, W Cai… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Characterization of genetic regulatory variants acting on the transcriptome of
livestock is essential for interpreting the molecular mechanisms underlying traits of …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-species enhancer prediction using machine learning

C MacPhillamy, H Alinejad-Rokny, WS Pitchford… - Genomics, 2022 - Elsevier
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) are non-coding parts of the genome that play a critical role
in gene expression regulation. Enhancers, as an important example of CREs, interact with …

Allele specific binding of histone modifications and a transcription factor does not predict allele specific expression in correlated ChIP-seq peak-exon pairs

CP Prowse-Wilkins, J Wang, JB Garner… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Allele specific expression (ASE) is widespread in many species including cows. Therefore,
regulatory regions which control gene expression should show cis-regulatory variation …

Butyrate induces modifications of the CTCF-binding landscape in cattle cells

C Boschiero, Y Gao, RL Baldwin, L Ma, C Li, GE Liu - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Butyrate is produced in the rumen from microbial fermentation and is related to several
functions, including cell differentiation and proliferation. Butyrate supplementation in calves …