Allele specific expression analysis in bovine muscle tissue.

Imprinted genes have been target of many studies, mainly in human and mouse, and lately in bovines due to the interest of understanding the epigenetic mechanisms underlying important meat quality phenotypes and the possibility of applying it in animal breeding programs in the future. Genomic DNA from 146 steers was genotyped using the Illumina BovineHD BeadChip in order to identify heterozygous individuals with known allele origin.