Project description:we compared the skin transcriptomes of the black- and white-coated region from the Boer and Macheng Black crossbred goat with black head and white body using the Illumina RNA-Seq method. Six cDNA libraries derived from skin samples of the white coat region (n = 3) and black coat region (n = 3) were constructed from three full-sib goats. On average, we obtained approximately 76.5 and 73.5 million reads for each skin sample of black coat and white coat, respectively, of which 75.39% and 76.05% reads were covered in the genome database. Our study provides insight into the transcriptional regulation of two distinct coat color that might serve as a key resource for understanding coat color pigmentation of goat.
Project description:The genetic foundation of chicken tail feather color is not very well studied to date, though that of body feather color is extensively explored. In the present study, we used a synthetic chicken dwarf line (DW), which was originated from the hybrids between a black tail chicken breed, Rhode Island Red (RIR) and a white tail breed, Dwarf Layer (DL), to understand the genetic rules of the white/black tail color. The DW line still contain the individuals with black or white tails, even if the body feather are predominantly red, after more than ten generation of self-crossing and being selected for the body feather color. We firstly performed four crosses using the DW line chickens including black tail male to female, reciprocal crosses between the black and white, and white male to female to elucidate the inheritance pattern of the white/black tail. We found that (i) the white/black tail feather colors are independent of body feather color and (ii) the phenotype are autosomal simple trait and (iii) the white are dominant to the black in the DW lines. Furtherly, we performed a genome-wide association (GWA) analysis to determine the candidate genomic regions underlying the tail feather color by using black tail chickens from the RIR and DW chickens and white individuals from DW lines.
2019-05-02 | GSE130568 | GEO
Project description:transcriptome of dazu black goats
Project description:The present study, for the first time, compared the transcriptomes of ovaries from the prolific Jintang black goat and the non-prolific Tibetan goat during follicular phase using the Illumina RNA-Seq method. The study provides insight into the transcriptional regulation in the ovaries of two distinct breeds of goats that might serve as a key resource for understanding goat fecundity.
Project description:Laiwu black goat kid liver mRNA expression profile were sequenced with novaSeq 6000. The liver tissues were procured at 5-time points from the Laiwu black goats of 1 day, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 12 weeks of age, respectively with 5 goats per time point, for a total of 25 goats.
Project description:Preeclampsia is a devastating hypertensive disorder of pregnancy that afflicts between 5-10% of pregnancies in the US, with a higher prevalence in the southern regions of the United States. Black pregnant women are disproportionally at higher risk for preeclampsia onset and severity of disease than other racial groups, including White women. Although this has been recognized in the maternal fetal medicine literature for many years, the underlying mechanism(s) for this racial disparity are unclear. One confounding issue with many studies of racial discrepancies in pregnant women is differences in comorbidities between racial groups. In our current study we were able to obtain a cohort of patients of self-identifying Black or White race that were overall matched for BMI, blood pressure, gestational age and parity and we hypothesized that genetic and placental markers of preeclampsia would be highest in our preeclampsia Black patients compared to healthy patients or White preeclampsia patients. We collected placenta tissue from this cohort of deliveries in Augusta, GA from both healthy and preeclamptic Black and White women (n=13-15). We measured expressions of several preeclampsia-implicated genes, as well as performed a placental morphological analysis and RNA sequencing of a subset of samples. Contrary to our hypothesis, our results from ddPCR analysis of genes associated with preeclampsia risk demonstrated that leptin, preproendothelin-1 (PPET-1) endothelial converting enzyme-1 (ECE-1) and soluble FMS-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt-1) were higher in White preeclamptic women than in Black preeclamptic women. Our RNA sequencing analysis revealed that 136 genes significantly differed between White and Black normal pregnant patients, 288 genes differed between Black healthy and Black preeclampsia patients, while a striking 2394 genes significantly differed between White healthy and White preeclampsia patients and 2346 genes differed between White and Black preeclampsia patients. Placental histology analysis revealed that Black preeclampsia patients demonstrated a lower scoring of morphological pathologies associated with preeclampsia compared to White preeclampsia patients. Collectively, these data indicate that genetic predisposition to preeclampsia in White patients in the placenta differs greatly to that of Black patients, and that placental changes may be more subtle in Black patients that are at high risk for preeclampsia.