RNA-seq of liver samples from C57BL/6J, CAST/EiJ mice as well as their initial and reciprocal F1 progeny to study the compensatory cis-trans regulation of liver gene expression

Two inbred mouse strains, C57BL/6J and CAST/EiJ, were crossed to generate both initial and reciprocal F1 crosses. For each genetically distinct class of mice (F0 C57BL/6J, F0 CAST/EiJ, F1i - C57BL/6J x CAST/EiJ, F1r - CAST/EiJ x C57BL/6J, where the male parent is listed first), samples were collected from a single lobe of the liver from 6 male mice between the ages of 4 and 6 months. The 24 samples were then processed to generate strand-specific RNA-seq libraries, which were sequenced on the Illumina GAII platform using 72bp paired-end reads.