RNA-Seq Analyses Identify Frequent Allele Specific Expression and No Evidence of Genomic Imprinting in Specific Embryonic Tissues of Chicken

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Zhuo, Zhu ^a   Lamont, Susan J ^b   Abasht, Behnam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TISSUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME IMPRINTING; LIVER; NONHUMAN; SEX CHROMOSOME; ALLELE; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; LIVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 85029646444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12179-9     Document Type: Article

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