PigBiobank: a valuable resource for understanding genetic and biological mechanisms of diverse complex traits in pigs

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  • Haonan Zeng
  • Wenjing Zhang
  • Qing Lin
  • Yahui Gao
  • Jinyan Teng
  • Zhiting Xu
  • Xiaodian Cai
  • Zhanming Zhong
  • Jun Wu
  • Yuqiang Liu
  • Shuqi Diao
  • Chen Wei
  • Wentao Gong
  • Xiangchun Pan
  • Zedong Li
  • Xiaoyu Huang
  • Xifan Chen
  • Jinshi Du
  • Fuping Zhao
  • Yunxiang Zhao
  • Maria Ballester
  • Daniel Crespo-Piazuelo
  • Marcel Amills
  • Alex Clop
  • Karlskov-Mortensen, Peter
  • Fredholm, Merete
  • Pinghua Li
  • Ruihua Huang
  • Guoqing Tang
  • Mingzhou Li
  • Xiaohong Liu
  • Yaosheng Chen
  • Qin Zhang
  • Jiaqi Li
  • Xiaolong Yuan
  • Xiangdong Ding
  • Lingzhao Fang
  • Zhe Zhang
  • The PigGTEx Consortium

To fully unlock the potential of pigs as both agricultural species for animal-based protein food and biomedical models for human biology and disease, a comprehensive understanding of molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying various complex phenotypes in pigs and how the findings can be translated to other species, especially humans, are urgently needed. Here, within the Farm animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) project, we build the PigBiobank (http://pigbiobank.farmgtex.org) to systematically investigate the relationships among genomic variants, regulatory elements, genes, molecular networks, tissues and complex traits in pigs. This first version of the PigBiobank curates 71 885 pigs with both genotypes and phenotypes from over 100 pig breeds worldwide, covering 264 distinct complex traits. The PigBiobank has the following functions: (i) imputed sequence-based genotype-phenotype associations via a standardized and uniform pipeline, (ii) molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying trait-associations via integrating multi-omics data, (iii) cross-species gene mapping of complex traits via transcriptome-wide association studies, and (iv) high-quality results display and visualization. The PigBiobank will be updated timely with the development of the FarmGTEx-PigGTEx project, serving as an open-access and easy-to-use resource for genetically and biologically dissecting complex traits in pigs and translating the findings to other species.

Original languageEnglish
JournalNucleic Acids Research
Volume52
Issue numberD1
Pages (from-to)D980-D989
Number of pages10
ISSN0305-1048
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

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