Funded projects

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• Functional Annotation of the Porcine Genome

  USDA NIFA Grant 2018-67015-27501 [$2,500,000] (2018-01-01~2021-12-31)

  Objectives: (1) Maximize functional annotation in healthy adult porcine tissues relevant to phenotypes important for genetic improvement; (2) Create functional annotation of important tissues during fetal development and the association of allele-specific expression with allele-specific chromatin modification; (3) Identify the functional components of the immune system as a resource for improving resilience in pigs; (4) Integrate all public and project data to develop a higher-order regulatory understanding of the porcine genome, including a predicted chromatin state map.

  Project directors:

  • Chris Tuggle, Iowa State University
  • Jim Reecy, Iowa State University
  • Dan Nonneman, USDA, ARS, MARC
  • Crystal Loving, National Animal Disease Center, USDA, ARS
  • Cathy Ernst, Michigan State University
  • Juan Steibel, Michigan State University
  • Huaijun Zhou, University of California, Davis
  • Tellam Ross, University of California, Davis
  • Tim Smith, USDA, ARS, MARC
  • James Koltes, Iowa State University
  • Wen Huang, Michigan State University

  Contact: cktuggle@iastate.edu

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