Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression Project

A public resource for regulatory variants discovery and molecular phenotype prediction in farm animal species

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FarmGTEx white paper

The FarmGTEx white paper has been published on Nature Genetics!

PigGTEx paper has been highlighted by Nature Reviews Genetics.

Dr. Henry Ertl stated in the Research Highlight aritcle, "this resource has potential for biomedical as well as agricultural applications."

CattleGTEx paper selected as cover article of Nature Genetics

Featured as a Nature Genetics cover story, CattleGTEx unveils the world's largest multi-tissue regulatory atlas for cattle, pioneering a transformative roadmap to unravel genetic mechanisms of agricultural traits and propel precision breeding forward through the FarmGTEx initiative!

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The Farm Animal Genotype–Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) Project

Lingzhao Fang*, Jinyan Teng, Qing Lin, Zhonghao Bai, Shuli Liu, Dailu Guan, Bingjie Li, Yahui Gao, Yali Hou, Mian Gong, Zhangyuan Pan, Ying Yu, Emily L. Clark, Jacqueline Smith, Konrad Rawlik, Ruidong Xiang, Amanda J. Chamberlain, Michael E. Goddard, Mathew Littlejohn, Greger Larson, David E. MacHugh, John F. O’Grady, Peter Sørensen, Goutam Sahana, Mogens Sandø Lund, Zhihua Jiang, Xiangchun Pan, Wentao Gong, Haihan Zhang, Xi He, Yuebo Zhang, Ning Gao, Jun He, Guoqiang Yi, Yuwen Liu, Zhonglin Tang, Pengju Zhao, Yang Zhou, Liangliang Fu, Xiao Wang, Dan Hao, Lei Liu, Siqian Chen, Robert S. Young, Xia Shen, Charley Xia, Hao Cheng, Li Ma, John B. Cole, Ransom L. Baldwin VI, Cong-jun Li, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Benjamin D. Rosen, Nayan Bhowmik, Joan Lunney, Wansheng Liu, Leluo Guan, Xin Zhao, Eveline M. Ibeagha-Awemu, Yonglun Luo, Lin Lin, Oriol Canela-Xandri, Martijn F. L. Derks, Richard P. M. A. Crooijmans, Marta Gòdia, Ole Madsen, Martien A. M. Groenen, James E. Koltes, Christopher K. Tuggle, Fiona M. McCarthy, Dominique Rocha, Elisabetta Giuffra, Marcel Amills, Alex Clop, Maria Ballester, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, Jing Li, Chao Fang, Ming Fang, Qishan Wang, Zhuocheng Hou, Qin Wang, Fuping Zhao, Lin Jiang, Guiping Zhao, Zhengkui Zhou, Rong Zhou, Hehe Liu, Juan Deng, Long Jin, Mingzhou Li, Delin Mo, Xiaohong Liu, Yaosheng Chen, Xiaolong Yuan, Jiaqi Li, Shuhong Zhao, Yi Zhang, Xiangdong Ding, Dongxiao Sun, Hui-Zeng Sun, Cong Li, Yu Wang, Yu Jiang, Dongdong Wu, Wenwen Wang, Xinzhong Fan, Qin Zhang, Kui Li, Hao Zhang, Ning Yang, Xiaoxiang Hu, Wen Huang, Jiuzhou Song, Yang Wu, Jian Yang, Weiwei Wu, Claudia Kasper, Xinfeng Liu, Xiaofei Yu, Leilei Cui, Xiang Zhou, Seyoung Kim, Wei Li, Hae Kyung Im, Edward S. Buckler, Bing Ren, Michael C. Schatz, Jingyi Jessica Li*, Abraham A. Palmer*, Laurent Frantz*, Huaijun Zhou*, Zhe Zhang*, George E. Liu* & The FarmGTEx Consortium

Nature Genetics, 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02121-5