RNA-Seq reveals 10 novel promising candidate genes affecting milk protein concentration in the Chinese Holstein population

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Li, Cong ^a   Cai, Wentao ^a   Zhou, Chenghao ^a   Yin, Hongwei ^a   Zhang, Ziqi ^a   Loor, Juan J ^b   Sun, Dongxiao ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Liu, Jianfeng ^a   Zhang, Shengli ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BOVINE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; LACTATION; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UDDER;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84974712439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26813     Document Type: Article

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