RNA Deep Sequencing Reveals Novel Candidate Genes and Polymorphisms in Boar Testis and Liver Tissues with Divergent Androstenone Levels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gunawan, Asep ^a,b   Sahadevan, Sudeep ^a   Neuhoff, Christiane ^a   Große Brinkhaus, Christine ^a   Gad, Ahmed ^a,c   Frieden, Luc ^a   Tesfaye, Dawit ^a   Tholen, Ernst ^a   Looft, Christian ^a   Uddin, Muhammad Jasim ^a,d   Schellander, Karl ^a   Cinar, Mehmet Ulas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENONE; CHOLESTEROL 7ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; CYTOCHROME P450; FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; RNA; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP7A1 GENE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FMO5 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC MARKER; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE TISSUE LEVEL; IFIT2 GENE; IRG6 GENE; KRT18 GENE; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MX1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SWINE; TESTIS; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANDROSTENES; ANIMALS; LIVER; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SKATOLE; SWINE; TESTIS;

EID: 84877803235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063259     Document Type: Article

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