Analysis of Chromatin Openness in Testicle Tissue of Yak and Cattle-Yak
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Read Quality and Alignment
2.2. Peaks Identification and Annotation
2.3. GO and KEGG Analysis of Differential OCRs-Related Genes
2.4. Combined Analysis of ATAC-seq and RNA-seq
2.5. Motif Analysis of Differential OCRs
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Ethics Statement
4.2. Animals and Sample Collection
4.3. ATAC-seq Library Preparation, Sequencing, and Analysis
4.4. RNA-seq Library Preparation, Sequencing, and Data Processing
4.5. Integration of ATAC-seq and RNA-seq
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Cao, M.; Pei, J.; Xiong, L.; Guo, S.; Wang, X.; Kang, Y.; Guo, X. Analysis of Chromatin Openness in Testicle Tissue of Yak and Cattle-Yak. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 15810. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232415810
Cao M, Pei J, Xiong L, Guo S, Wang X, Kang Y, Guo X. Analysis of Chromatin Openness in Testicle Tissue of Yak and Cattle-Yak. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2022; 23(24):15810. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232415810
Chicago/Turabian StyleCao, Mengli, Jie Pei, Lin Xiong, Shaoke Guo, Xingdong Wang, Yandong Kang, and Xian Guo. 2022. "Analysis of Chromatin Openness in Testicle Tissue of Yak and Cattle-Yak" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23, no. 24: 15810. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232415810