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To date, we are considering 16 farmed animal species, including eight mammals (that is, cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, horses, rabbits, camels and donkeys), five birds (that is, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and pigeons) and three fish (that is, large yellow croaker, Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout). Additional farmed species will be considered as the project progresses. The regulatory effects of genomic variants on different molecular phenotypes across biological contexts and environmental conditions will be systematically exploited using cis- molQTL and trans -molQTL mapping. Different goals and milestones for the three phases of FarmGTEx are outlined. Asterisks indicate that the pilot phases for these species have been completed. Indel, short insertion and deletion (length less than 50 nucleotides); SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism; SV, structural variants.

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