Transcriptomic profiling of the pig limbic and endocrine tissues

This study aims to investigate the transcriptomic profile of the pig limbic and endocrine tissues, which are important in stress response and hence the pig's health and welfare and production. We performed a total of 48 RNA-seq of the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and adrenal gland obtained from 8 individual pigs. We identified differentially expressed genes across tissue-types, co-expressed gene modules and their associations with specific tissue types by Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA) and allele-specific expression (ASE) within and between tissues.