Liver transcriptome profile in pigs with extreme phenotypes of intramuscular fatty acid composition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

New advances in high-throughput technologies have allowed for the massive analysis of genomic data, providing new opportunities for the characterization of the transcriptome architectures. Recent studies in pigs have employed RNA-Seq to explore the transcriptome of different tissues in a reduced number of animals. The main goal of this study was the identification of differentially-expressed genes in the liver of Iberian x Landrace crossbred pigs showing extreme phenotypes for intramuscular fatty acid composition using RNA-Seq.

Results

The liver transcriptomes of two female groups (H and L) with phenotypically extreme intramuscular fatty acid composition were sequenced using RNA-Seq. A total of 146 and 180 unannotated protein-coding genes were identified in interg

SUBMITTER: Ramayo-Caldas Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3478172 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature