Genetic dissection of blood lipid traits by integrating genome-wide association study and gene expression profiling in a porcine model

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Congying ^a   Yang, Bin ^a   Zeng, Zhijun ^a   Yang, Hui ^a   Liu, Chenlong ^a   Ren, Jun ^a   Huang, Lusheng ^a  

^a JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blood lipids; Candidate gene; Gene expression; Genome wide association study; Pig

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PORCINE MODEL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; SWINE;

SUIDAE; SUS;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LIPIDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SUS SCROFA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84888773216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-848     Document Type: Article

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