pig liver tissue transcriptome

The traits of fatness were important for the growth, meat quality, reproductive performance and immune. The regulation of lipid metabolism takes place in the principal organs as liver. In this study, we have used massive parallel high-throughput sequencing technologies to the porcine liver tissue transcriptome architecture in 4 songliao black pigs showing extreme phenotypes for backfat thickness of live (two pairs full-sibs). The total number of reads produced for each sample ranged about 26 million. Approximately 92 were differentially regulated in liver tissue. Differentially regulated genes in adipose samples were enriched in metabolic processes such as metabolisms of fatty acid metabolic, etinol, caffeine, arachidonic acid, drug. Further studies are required for proving the role of candidate genes to be used in genomic selection for fat deposition in pig breeding programs