Comparison of gene expression and genome-wide DNA methylation profiling between phenotypically normal cloned pigs and conventionally bred controls.

Animal breeding via Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) has enormous potential in agriculture and biomedicine. However, concerns about whether SCNT animals are as healthy or epigenetically normal as conventionally bred ones are raised as the efficiency of cloning by SCNT is much lower than natural...

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Main Authors: Fei Gao, Yonglun Luo, Shengting Li, Jian Li, Lin Lin, Anders Lade Nielsen, Charlotte Brandt Sørensen, Gábor Vajta, Jun Wang, Xiuqing Zhang, Yutao Du, Huanming Yang, Lars Bolund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22022462/pdf/?tool=EBI