Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

A compendium and comparative epigenomics analysis of cis-regulatory elements in the pig genome

  • Yunxia Zhao,
  • Ye Hou,
  • Yueyuan Xu,
  • Yu Luan,
  • Huanhuan Zhou,
  • Xiaolong Qi,
  • Mingyang Hu,
  • Daoyuan Wang,
  • Zhangxu Wang,
  • Yuhua Fu,
  • Jingjin Li,
  • Saixian Zhang,
  • Jianhai Chen,
  • Jianlin Han,
  • Xinyun Li,
  • Shuhong Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22448-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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To date, little is known about the regulatory landscape of the pig genome. Here, the authors characterize cis-regulatory elements in the pig genome using RNA-seq, ChIP-Seq and ATAC-seq, finding a higher degree of usage conservation between pig and human than mouse and human.