Genomic analysis of worldwide sheep breeds reveals PDGFD as a major target of fat-tail selection in sheep

Rapid evolution of a retro-transposable hotspot of ovine genome underlies the alteration of BMP2 expression and development of fat tails

(2019) Zhangyuan Pan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Activate Ciliary FFAR4 to Control Adipogenesis

(2019) Keren I. Hilgendorf et al.   CELL

Genome-wide scan of fat-tail sheep identifies signals of selection for fat deposition and adaptation

(2018) S. Mastrangelo et al.   Animal Production Science

Transforming Growth Factor-β3 Regulates Adipocyte Number in Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue

(2018) Paul Petrus et al.   Cell Reports

Single cell transcriptomics suggest that human adipocyte progenitor cells constitute a homogeneous cell population

(2017) Juan R. Acosta et al.   Stem Cell Research & Therapy

Genomic footprints of dryland stress adaptation in Egyptian fat-tail sheep and their divergence from East African and western Asia cohorts

(2017) Joram M. Mwacharo et al.   Scientific Reports

Selection signature analysis reveals genes associated with tail type in Chinese indigenous sheep

(2016) Z. Yuan et al.   ANIMAL GENETICS

Genomic analysis identified a potential novel molecular mechanism for high-altitude adaptation in sheep at the Himalayas

(2016) Neena Amatya Gorkhali et al.   Scientific Reports

Signatures of selection identify loci associated with fat tail in sheep1

(2015) B. Moioli et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

(2013) Daehwan Kim et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Genomic scan of selective sweeps in thin and fat tail sheep breeds for identifying of candidate regions associated with fat deposition

(2012) Mohammad Hossein Moradi et al.   BMC GENETICS

Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks

(2012) Cole Trapnell et al.   Nature Protocols

Genome-Wide Analysis of the World's Sheep Breeds Reveals High Levels of Historic Mixture and Strong Recent Selection

(2012) James W. Kijas et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The variant call format and VCFtools

(2011) P. Danecek et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

GCTA: A Tool for Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis

(2010) Jian Yang et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The obesity-associated SNPs in intron 1 of the FTO gene affect primary transcript levels

(2010) Tea Berulava et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A Genome Wide Survey of SNP Variation Reveals the Genetic Structure of Sheep Breeds

(2009) James W. Kijas et al.   PLoS One

genepop’007: a complete re-implementation of the genepop software for Windows and Linux

(2007) FRANÇOIS ROUSSET   Molecular Ecology Resources