Sus scrofa breed:Duroc Transcriptome or Gene expression. Sus scrofa breed:Duroc

The identification of expression QTL (eQTL) in different tissues is an essential step to understand how gene expression is genetically regulated in a context-dependent manner. In the current work, we have compared the transcriptomic and eQTL profiles of the porcine skeletal muscle and liver by using a data set of 103 Duroc pigs genotyped with the Illumina SNP60 BeadChip and with available microarray measurements of gene expression for both tissues. Since structural variation could have effects on gene expression, we have also investigated the co-localization of cis-eQTL with copy number variant regions (CNVR) segregating in the Duroc population under study.