Gene expression profiling of longissimus dorsi muscle,subcutaneous and abdominal adipose tissues in Yan yellow cattle

Microarray technologies,which can measure the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously are useful in understanding global gene networks and identifying novel genes and functional gene classes.The adipose depots may have various adipogenic state-specific genes and regulations of adipose accretion patterns in beef cattle.Therefore,the purpose of this study was to examine the molecular mechanisms of longissimus dorsi muscle,subcutaneous and abdominal adipose tissue depots in a native Chinese yellow breed by identifying differentially expressed genes using Bovine Genome Array.The GO and pathway analysis further validated differentially expressed genes identified in array analysis.

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