Ruidong Xiang

Meta-analysis for milk fat and protein percentage using imputed sequence variant genotypes in 94,321 cattle from eight cattle breeds

Irene van den Berg, Ruidong Xiang, Janez Jenko, Hubert Pausch, Mekki Boussaha, Chris Schrooten, Thierry Tribout, Arne B Gjuvsland, Didier Boichard, Oyvind Nordbo, Marie-Pierre Sanchez, Mike E Goddard

Journal article  |  2020  |  Genetics Selection Evolution

Effect direction meta-analysis of GWAS identifies extreme, prevalent and shared pleiotropy in a large mammal

Ruidong Xiang, Irene van den Berg, Iona M MacLeod, Hans D Daetwyler, Michael E Goddard

Journal article  |  2020  |  Communications Biology

In genome-wide association studies (GWAS), variants showing consistent effect directions across populations are considered as true..

Transcriptomic analyses revealed common tailed and perirenal adipose differentially expressed genes in four Chinese indigenous sheep breeds

Zehu Yuan, Ruidong Xiang, Wanhong Li, Fadi Li, Xiangpeng Yue

Journal article  |  2019  |  Livestock Science

Analyses of inter-individual variations of sperm DNA methylation and their potential implications in cattle

Shuli Liu, Lingzhao Fang, Yang Zhou, Daniel JA Santos, Ruidong Xiang, Hans D Daetwyler, Amanda J Chamberlain, John B Cole, Cong-jun Li, Ying Yu, Li Ma, Shengli Zhang, George E Liu

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Genomics

BACKGROUND: DNA methylation has been shown to be involved in many biological processes, including X chromosome inactivation in fem..

Quantifying the contribution of sequence variants with regulatory and evolutionary significance to 34 bovine complex traits

Ruidong Xiang, Irene van den Berg, Iona M MacLeod, Benjamin J Hayes, Claire P Prowse-Wilkins, Min Wang, Sunduimijid Bolormaa, Zhiqian Liu, Simone J Rochfort, Coralie M Reich, Brett A Mason, Christy J Vander Jagt, Hans D Daetwyler, Mogens S Lund, Amanda J Chamberlain, Michael E Goddard

Journal article  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The use of mid-infrared spectra to map genes affecting milk composition

A Benedet, PN Ho, R Xiang, S Bolormaa, M De Marchi, ME Goddard, JE Pryce

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Dairy Science

Across-Experiment Transcriptomics of Sheep Rumen Identifies Expression of Lipid/Oxo-Acid Metabolism and Muscle Cell Junction Genes Associated With Variation in Methane-Related Phenotypes

Ruidong Xiang, Jody McNally, Jude Bond, David Tucker, Margaret Cameron, Alistair J Donaldson, Katie L Austin, Suzanne Rowe, Arjan Jonker, Cesar S Pinares-Patino, John C McEwan, Phil E Vercoe, VH Oddy, Brian P Dalrymple

Journal article  |  2018  |  FRONTIERS IN GENETICS

Genome variants associated with RNA splicing variations in bovine are extensive shared between tissues

Ruidong Xiang, Ben J Hayes, Christy J Vander Jagt, Iona M MacLeod, Majid Khansefid, Phil J Bowman, Zehu Yuan, Claire P Prowse-Wilkins, Coralie M Reich, Brett A Mason, Josie B Garner, Leah C Marett, Yizhou Chen, Sunduimijid Bolormaa, Hans D Daetwyler, Amanda J Chamberlain, Michael E Goddard

Journal article  |  2018  |  BMC Genomics

Gene splicing QTL illuminate casual variants associated with bovine complex traits

R Xiang

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

Genome-wide comparative analyses of correlated and uncorrelated phenotypes identify major pleiotropic variants in dairy cattle

Ruidong Xiang, Iona M MacLeod, Sunduimijid Bolormaa, Michael E Goddard

Journal article  |  2017  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS