Sequencing the transcriptome of milk production: Milk trumps mammary tissue

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lemay, Danielle G ^a   Hovey, Russell C ^a   Hartono, Stella R ^a   Hinde, Katie ^b,c   Smilowitz, Jennifer T ^a   Ventimiglia, Frank ^c   Schmidt, Kimberli A ^a   Lee, Joyce W S ^c   Islas Trejo, Alma ^a   Silva, Pedro I ^a   Korf, Ian ^a   Medrano, Juan F ^a   Barry, Peter A ^a   German, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Human; Mammary gland; Milk; Milk processing; Milk RNA; Rhesus macaque; RNA Seq; Transcriptome; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

MILK FAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST EPITHELIUM; BREAST MILK; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VALIDITY;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LACTATION; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MILK; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84889993599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-872     Document Type: Article

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