Genome-wide association study of disease resilience traits from a natural polymicrobial disease challenge model in pigs identifies the importance of the major …

J Cheng, R Fernando, H Cheng, SD Kachman, KS Lim… - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Infectious diseases cause tremendous financial losses in the pork industry, emphasizing the
importance of disease resilience, which is the ability of an animal to maintain performance …

Genetic analysis of the blood transcriptome of young healthy pigs to improve disease resilience

KS Lim, J Cheng, C Tuggle, M Dyck… - Genetics Selection …, 2023 - Springer
Background Disease resilience is the ability of an animal to maintain productive
performance under disease conditions and is an important selection target. In pig breeding …

Expression Profile of Housekeeping Genes and Tissue-Specific Genes in Multiple Tissues of Pigs

X Pan, J Cai, Y Wang, D Xu, Y Jiang, W Gong, Y Tian… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pig is an important biomedical model and a valuable source of nutrition for
humans. The all-sided gene expression profile across multiple tissues engages crucial …

Adjusting for gene-specific covariates to improve RNA-seq analysis

H Jeon, KS Lim, Y Nguyen, D Nettleton - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article suggests a novel positive false discovery rate (pFDR) controlling method for
testing gene-specific hypotheses using a gene-specific covariate variable, such as gene …

Plasma protein levels of young healthy pigs as indicators of disease resilience

Y Chen, S Lonergan, KS Lim, J Cheng… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Selection for disease resilience, which refers to the ability of an animal to maintain
performance when exposed to disease, can reduce the impact of infectious diseases …

Indicators of disease resilience from complete blood count and in vitro immunoassays data from young-healthy pigs

X Bai, J Cheng, F Fortin… - … of 12th World …, 2022 - wageningenacademic.com
This study estimates heritability of complete blood count (CBC) and in vitro immunoassay
traits. The traits were measured from blood samples of young-healthy nursery animals that …

Large-scale cis-eQTL analysis of gene expression in blood of young healthy pigs using PigGTEx

LM Kramer, J Teng, KS Lim, Y Gao… - … of 12th World …, 2022 - wageningenacademic.com
RNA sequencing and high-density genotyping or whole genome sequencing can be used in
tandem to identify genomic regions associated with the control of gene expression, also …

Genetic relationships among immune response traits of young healthy pigs evaluated by immunoassays

V Bhatia, J Schmied, J Cheng… - … of 12th World …, 2022 - wageningenacademic.com
This study estimates phenotypic and genetic correlations of different components of the
immune system of young healthy pigs, evaluated by various immunoassays, with an aim …

Large-scale cis-eQTL analysis of gene expression in blood of young healthy pigs using PigGTEx LM Kramer1, J. Teng2, KS Lim1, Y. Gao3, 4, H. Yin5, L. Bai5, GE Liu3 …

GS Fang, CK Tuggle, JCM Dekkers - wageningenacademic.com
RNA sequencing and high-density genotyping or whole genome sequencing can be used in
tandem to identify genomic regions associated with the control of gene expression, also …

Indicators of disease resilience from complete blood count and in vitro immunoassays data from young-healthy pigs X. Bai1, 2, J. Cheng3, F. Fortin4, JCS Harding5 …

CJ Dekkers, C Rogel-Gaillard, F Blanc, GS Plastow - wageningenacademic.com
This study estimates heritability of complete blood count (CBC) and in vitro immunoassay
traits. The traits were measured from blood samples of young-healthy nursery animals that …