Identification of muscle-specific candidate genes in Simmental beef cattle using imputed next generation sequencing

• Farhad Bordbar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-930X

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• Just Jensen,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Bo Zhu,

  Roles Resources, Software

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Zezhao Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Lei Xu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Tianpeng Chang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Ling Xu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Min Du,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Washington Center for Muscle Biology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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• Lupei Zhang,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Huijiang Gao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Lingyang Xu ,

  Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lijunya@caas.cn (JYL); xulingyang@caas.cn (LYX)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Junya Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: lijunya@caas.cn (JYL); xulingyang@caas.cn (LYX)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bovine Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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