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FarmGTEx Consortium (2025). The Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) Project. Nature Genetics, 57(4), 786-796. Article 604. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02121-5
Zan, Y., Chen, S., Ren, M., Liu, G., Liu, Y., Han, Y., Dong, Y., Zhang, Y., Si, H., Liu, Z., Liu, D., Zhang, X., Tong, Y., Li, Y., Jiang, C., Wen, L., Xiao, Z., Sun, Y., Geng, R. ... Yang, A. (2025). The genome and GeneBank genomics of allotetraploid Nicotiana tabacum provide insights into genome evolution and complex trait regulation. Nature Genetics, 57(4), 986-996. Article 3833. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02126-0
Conover, C. A. & Oxvig, C. (2025). The IGF System and Aging. Endocrine Reviews, 46(2), 214-223. https://doi.org/10.1210/endrev/bnae029
Worm, J., Jørgensen, I. F., Davídsson, Ó. B., Hjalgrim, H., Röder, T., Ostrowski, S. R., Pedersen, O. B., Erikstrup, C., Bruun, M. T., Jensen, B. A., Sørensen, E., Ullum, H., Björnsdóttir, G., Thorgeirsson, T., Stefánsson, H., Sveinsson, Ó. Á., Stefansson, K., Schytz, H. W., Bendtsen, L. ... Westergaard, D. (2025). Trigeminal neuralgia and its comorbidities: A nationwide disease trajectory study. Pain, 166(4), 879-887. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003428
Ramírez-Díaz, J., Bobbo, T., Guldbrandtsen, B., Schönherz, A. A., Cozzi, P., Kusza, S., Sahana, G., Stella, A. & Manunza, A. (2025). Exploring the complex population structure and admixture of four local Hungarian sheep breeds. Frontiers in Genetics, 16, Article 1507315. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2025.1507315
Holur, P., Enevoldsen, K. C., Rajesh, S., Mboning, L., Georgiou, T., Bouchard, L. S., Pellegrini, M. & Roychowdhury, V. (2025). Embed-Search-Align: DNA sequence alignment using Transformer models. Bioinformatics, 41(3), Article btaf041. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf041
Cantet, R. J. C. & Jensen, J. (2025). Causal inference and GWAS: Rubin, Pearl, and Mendelian randomization. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 142(2), 200-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbg.12898
Chalabi, S., Loonen, L., Boekhorst, J., Li, H., Fang, L., Harrison, P. W., Lakhal, W., Lluch, J., Sokolov, A., Djebali, S., Rau, A., Giuffra, E. & Wells, J. (2025). Differences in maternal diet fiber content influence patterns of gene expression and chromatin accessibility in fetuses and piglets. Genomics, 117(2), Article 110995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2025.110995
He, S., Song, B., Tang, Y., Qu, X., Li, X., Yang, X., Bao, Q., Fang, L., Jiang, J., Tang, Z. & Yi, G. (2025). Systematic benchmarking of tools for structural variation detection using short- and long-read sequencing data in pigs. iScience, 28(3), Article 111983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.111983
Zhou, H., Clark, E., Guan, D., Lagarrigue, S., Fang, L., Cheng, H., Tuggle, C. K., Kapoor, M., Wang, Y., Giuffra, E. & Egidy, G. (2025). Comparative Genomics and Epigenomics of Transcriptional Regulation. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 13(1), 73-98. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-111523-102217
The FarmGTEx Consortium (2025). FarmGTEx TWAS-server: An Interactive Web Server for Customized TWAS Analysis. Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, 23(1), Article qzaf006. https://doi.org/10.1093/gpbjnl/qzaf006
Liu, H., Zhang, J., Cui, T., Zhang, X., Li, K., Wang, F., Luo, Q., Fei, S., Chen, B., Zhu, C., Chen, K., Zhu, X., Li, B., Zhao, J., Fang, L. & Ou, M. (2025). A chromosome-level genome assembly of the male darkbarbel catfish (Pelteobagrus vachelli) using PacBio HiFi and Hi-C data. Scientific Data, 12(1), Article 351. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04662-0
Chen, M. Y., Fulton, L. M., Huang, I., Liman, A., Hossain, S. S., Hamilton, C. D., Song, S., Geissmann, Q., King, K. C. & Haney, C. H. (2025). Order among chaos: High throughput MYCroplanters can distinguish interacting drivers of host infection in a highly stochastic system. PLoS Pathogens, 21(2 February), Article e1012894. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012894
Si, J., Dai, D., Gorkhali, N. A., Wang, M., Wang, S., Sapkota, S., Kadel, R. C., Sadaula, A., Dhakal, A., Faruque, M. O., Omar, A. I., Sari, E. M., Ashari, H., Dagong, M. I. A., Yindee, M., Rushdi, H. E., Elregalaty, H., Amin, A., Radwan, M. A. ... Zhang, Y. (2025). Complete Genomic Landscape Reveals Hidden Evolutionary History and Selection Signature in Asian Water Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis). Advanced Science, 12(4), e2407615. Article 2407615. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202407615
Yousaf, M. F., Naeem, M. & Bakar Zia, M. A. (2025). QTL Mapping for Drought Tolerance in Vegetables. In U. K. Chaudhry, Z. N. Öztürk & A. F. Gökçe (Eds.), Drought Stress: Review and Recommendations (pp. 369-392). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80610-0_14
Lissner, E. S., Janns, L., Giannini-Kurina, F., Blicher-Mathiesen, G. & Thorsen, M. (2025). Abstract 154 Field-level nitrogen leadching and crop yield under extreme climate events. Abstract from LuWQ2025. Land Use and Water Quality: Agriculture and the Environment , Aarhus, Denmark.
White, E. L. F., Kjetså, M., Peippo, J., Morgan, L., Kantanen, J., Comizzoli, P., Steffensen, L. L., Kargo, M., Matson, T., Mayer, I. & Honkatukia, M. (2025). Across borders – the status and future opportunities for long-term conservation of Nordic animal genetic resources. Genetic Resources, 6(11), 57-70. https://doi.org/10.46265/genresj.baiq2696
Sandrock, C., Generalovic, T. N., Paul, K., Petersen, G. E. L., Sellem, E., Smith, M. B., Tapio, M., Yakti, W., Beukeboom, L. W., Deruytter, D., Jiggins, C. D., Lefebvre, T., Librado, P., Pannebakker, B. A., Picard, C. J., Rhode, C., Sørensen, J. G., Bouwman, A. C., Hansen, L. S. & Obšteter, J. (2025). BugBook: Genetics of insects as food and feed. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 11(18), S397-S455. https://doi.org/10.1163/23524588-bja10260
Magnussen, M. G., Bouquet, A. E. R., Nielsen, H. M., Thomasen, J. R., Hjortø, L., Voergaard, J. L. & Kargo, M. (2025). Consequences of including CO2 taxes in the selection index of the Danish Blue line used for beef on dairy crossbreeding. In Book of Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (pp. 583-583). EAAP.
Christensen, T., Denver, S., Lund, T. B., Olsen, S. B., Nielsen, H. M., Kargo, M. & Sandøe, P. (2025). Do consumers want specialized breeding goals for organic dairy cows – and how much are they willing to pay for individual breeding traits?. Abstract from The International Food Marketing Research Symposium (IFMRS) 2025, Athen, Greece.
Zaalberg, R. M., Williams, C. & Leishman, E. M. (2025). From debate to dialogue – improving collaboration between animal welfare and genetics. In J. E. Bolhuis, I. Reimert, M. V. D. Sluis, K. Visser & T. B. Rodenburg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 58th Congress of the ISAE 2025: A good life for all animals (pp. 122). ISAE, International Society for Applied Ethology. https://isae2025utrecht.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ISAE_Proceedings_6aug.pdf
Zaalberg, R. M., Chu, T. T., Jensen, J. & Villumsen, T. M. (2025). Genetic analysis of number of functional teats, piglet survival, and piglet weight in organic pigs. In Proceedings of 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP) (pp. 361-364). Wageningen Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_78
Hastrup, R. L., Buitenhuis, A. J., Christensen, O. F. & Sørensen, A. C. (2025). Genetic correlations between slaughter loss and other economically important traits measured on live pigs in DanBred Yorkshire. In Book of abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) (pp. 799). EAAP. https://docs.eaap.org/boa/2025_Innsbruck_EAAP_Book_Abstracts.pdf
Eiríksson, J. H., Þórarinsdóttir, Þ., Gautason, E., Thomasen, J. R. & Liu, H. (2025). Icelandic dairy cattle: successful conservation but how can the breed keep profitable? In Book of Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (Vol. 39, pp. 331)
Thomasen, J. R., Clasen, J., Fogh, A., Østergaard, S., Nielsen, H. M. & Kargo, M. (2025). Improved competitiveness of dairy producers through systematic crossbreeding – a holistic view. In Book of Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (Vol. 39, pp. 581)
Liu, P., An, B., Zheng, J., Wang, Q., Yang, Z., Li, Z., Liu, D., Ying, F., Wen, J., Fang, L. & Zhao, G. (2025). Integrative Omics Defines Metabolic Biomarkers and Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms of Mortality Risk. Advanced Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202514464
iPSYCH-MINERvA Group (2025). Maternal asthma and newborn DNA methylation. Clinical Epigenetics, 17(1), Article 79. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-025-01858-4
González-Recio, O., Pryce, J., Rowe, S., Sahana, G. & Gredler-Grandl, B. (2025). MicroHUB: An international initiative to modulate the rumen microbiome for methane mitigation. 136. Abstract from The 76th EAAP Annual Meeting, Innsbruck , Austria. https://docs.eaap.org/boa/2025_Innsbruck_EAAP_Book_Abstracts.pdf
Barboza Bispo, R., Teixeira do Amaral Junior, A., Santos, T. D. O., de Lima, V. J., Simão, B. R., Freitas, M. S. M., Kamphorst, S. H., Carvalho, C. M., Lamêgo, D. L., Nicácio Viana, F., Bernardo, W. D. P., Campostrini, E. & Bressan-Smith, R. (2025). Morphophysiological approach to heterosis in phosphorus use efficiency in popcorn. Cogent Food & Agriculture, 11(1), Article 2452347. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2025.2452347
Stephansen, R. B., Jensen, J., Poulsen, B. G., Nielsen, U. S., Andersen, T., Rius-Vilarrasa, E., F. Fikse, W., Pösö, J., Lidauer, M. H., Negussie, E., Lassen, J. & von Unge, F. (2025). Nordic Genetic Evaluation of Feed Efficiency – Updated Model for Saved Feed in Nordic Dairy Cattle Breeds. In Proceedings of the 2025 Interbull Meeting (pp. 224-230) https://journal.interbull.org/index.php/ib/issue/view/73/8
Tenhunen, S. R., Thomasen, J. R., Sørensen, L. P., Berg, P., Kargo, M., Nielsen, H. M. & Gorjanc, G. (2025). Optimizing Relatedness Penalties in Multi-Stage Optimal Contribution in Dairy Cattle Breeding Programs. In Book of Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (Vol. 39, pp. 334)
Berrandou, T. E., Cordina-Duverger, E., Mulot, C., Guizard, A. V., Schvartz, C., Laurent-Puig, P., Zidane, M., De Vathaire, F., Guénel, P. & Truong, T. (2025). Polymorphisms in circadian rhythm genes and the risk of differentiated thyroid cancer. Frontiers in Genetics, 16, Article 1539090. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2025.1539090
Costes, V., Lopez-Catalina, A., Raja Ravi Shankar , A., Chaulot-Talmon, A., Costa-Monteiro-Moreira , G., Cai, Z., Sahana, G., Boussaha, M., Fritz, S., Ibeagha-Awemu, E., Bissonette, N., Powell, J., Navarro, P., Clarke, S., Coulton , A., Foucras, G., Rico , D., Lefebvre, R., Takeda, K. ... Kiefer, H. (2025). The RUMIGEN Epichip: a versatile, medium density DNA methylation BeadChip for large population studies in cattle. 568. Abstract from The 76th EAAP Annual Meeting, Innsbruck , Austria. https://docs.eaap.org/boa/2025_Innsbruck_EAAP_Book_Abstracts.pdf
Verweij, J. W., Buitenhuis, A. J., Chu, T. T. & Nielsen, H. M. (2025). TROUTGANIC: Establishment of an organic line of rainbow trout. 227. Poster session presented at XV International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture, Cadíz, Spain.
Jové-Juncà, T., Crespo-Piazuelo, D., Hernández-Banqué, C., González-Rodríguez, O., Fang, L., Quintanilla, R. & Ballester, M. (2025). Unveiling regulatory variants in the blood transcriptome and their association with immunity traits in pigs. Frontiers in Immunology, 16, Article 1582982. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2025.1582982
Lund, T. B., Christensen, T., Denver, S., Olsen, S. B., Nielsen, H. M., Kargo, M. & Sandøe, P. (2025). What Breeding Goal Should Organic Dairy Farmers Pursue? Results from a Willingness-To-Pay Study Among Consumers in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. In Book of Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (Vol. 39, pp. 730)
Kristensen, P. S., Larsen, A. S., Deneken, G. & Nielsen, B. (2024). Cultivar mixtures in wheat. Poster session presented at QGG Breeding Network Day, Aarhus, Denmark.
Zhong, C., Li, X., Guan, D., Zhang, B., Wang, X., Qu, L., Zhou, H., Fang, L., Sun, C., Yang, N. & ChickenGTEx Consortium (2024). Age-dependent genetic architectures of chicken body weight explored by multidimensional GWAS and molQTL analyses. Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 51(12), 1423-1434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgg.2024.09.003
Liu, H., Cui, T., Liu, H., Zhang, J., Luo, Q., Fei, S., Chen, K., Zhu, X., Zhu, C., Li, B., Fang, L., Zhao, J. & Ou, M. (2024). Chromosome-level genome assembly of the mud carp (Cirrhinus molitorella) using PacBio HiFi and Hi-C sequencing. Scientific Data, 11(1), Article 1249. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04075-5
Zheng, S. L., Henry, A., Cannie, D., Lee, M., Miller, D., McGurk, K. A., Bond, I., Xu, X., Issa, H., Francis, C., De Marvao, A., Theotokis, P. I., Buchan, R. J., Speed, D., Abner, E., Adams, L., Aragam, K. G., Ärnlöv, J., Raja, A. A. ... COVIDsortium (2024). Genome-wide association analysis provides insights into the molecular etiology of dilated cardiomyopathy. Nature Genetics, 56(12), 2646-2658. Article 2254. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01952-y
Sharif-Islam, M., van der Werf, J. H. J., Henryon, M., Chu, T. T., Wood, B. J. & Hermesch, S. (2024). Genotyping both live and dead animals to improve post-weaning survival of pigs in breeding programs. Genetics Selection Evolution, 56(1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-024-00932-4
Cai, Z., Iso-Touru, T., Sanchez, M.-P., Kadri, N., Bouwman, A. C., Chitneedi, P. K., MacLeod, I. M., Vander Jagt, C. J., Chamberlain, A. J., Gredler-Grandl, B., Spengeler, M., Lund, M. S., Boichard, D., Kühn, C., Pausch, H., Vilkki, J. & Sahana, G. (2024). Meta-analysis of six dairy cattle breeds reveals biologically relevant candidate genes for mastitis resistance. Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE, 56(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-024-00920-8
Liu, L., Yi, G., Yao, Y., Liu, Y., Li, J., Yang, Y., Liu, M., Fang, L., Mo, D., Zhang, L., Liu, Y., Niu, Y., Wang, L., Qu, X., Pan, Z., Wang, L., Chen, M., Fan, X., Chen, Y. ... Tang, Z. (2024). Multiomics analysis reveals signatures of selection and loci associated with complex traits in pigs. iMeta, 3(6), Article e250. https://doi.org/10.1002/imt2.250
Li, D., Wang, Y., Yuan, T., Cao, M., He, Y., Zhang, L., Li, X., Jiang, Y., Li, K., Sun, J., Lv, G., Su, G., Wang, Q., Pan, Y., Li, X., Jiang, Y., Yang, G., Groenen, M. A. M., Derks, M. F. L. ... Yu, T. (2024). Pangenome and genome variation analyses of pigs unveil genomic facets for their adaptation and agronomic characteristics. iMeta, 3(6), Article e257. https://doi.org/10.1002/imt2.257
Sahana, G., (2024). Bidrag til OECD's undersøgelse om unikke koder ('unique identifiers') til genetisk modificerede dyr, No. 2024-0750791, 9 p., Nov 21, 2024. Rådgivningsnotat fra DCA - Nationalt Center for Fødevarer og Jordbrug
Bordbar, F., Jensen, J., Wadood, A. A. & Yao, Z. (2024). Linkage Disequilibrium Decay in Selected Cattle Breeds. Animals, 14(22), Article 3317. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14223317
Smith, A. G., Malinowska, M., Ruud, A. K., Janss, L., Krusell, L., Jensen, J. D. & Asp, T. (2024). Automated seminal root angle measurement with corrective annotation. AoB Plants, 16(5), Article plae046. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plae046
Stefanucci, L., Moslemi, C., Tomé, A. R., Virtue, S., Bidault, G., Gleadall, N. S., Watson, L. P. E., Kwa, J. E., Burden, F., Farrow, S., Banasik, K., Bay, J., Boldsen, J. K., Brodersen, T., Brunak, S., Burgdorf, K., Chalmer, M. A., Didriksen, M., Dinh, K. M. ... Frontini, M. (2024). SMIM1 absence is associated with reduced energy expenditure and excess weight. Med, 5(9), 1083-1095.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2024.05.015
Tilhou, N. W., Lee, D. K., Ramstein, G. P., Poudel, H. P., Edme, S. J. & Casler, M. D. (2024). Empirical comparison of genomic selection to phenotypic selection for biomass yield of switchgrass. Agronomy Journal, 116(5), 2318-2327. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.21639
Kongsted, H., Krogh, M. A., Poulsen, B. G. & Christensen, O. F. (2024). Afdækning af eksisterende viden vedrørende variation i sæsonbestemt sodødelighed og genetisk variation i sodødelighed. DCA - Nationalt Center for Fødevarer og Jordbrug. Rådgivningsrapport fra DCA - Nationalt Center for Fødevarer og Jordbrug
Pedersen, L. J., Kongsted, H., Su, G. & Christensen, O. F. (2024). Tiltag som kan forbedre pattegriseoverlevelsen. DCA - Nationalt Center for Fødevarer og Jordbrug. Rådgivningsrapport fra DCA - Nationalt Center for Fødevarer og Jordbrug
Tang, X., Liu, P., Luo, N., Wen, J., Li, H., Zhao, G. & An, B. (2024). Mining Candidate Genes and Identifying Risk Factors for Leg Disease in Broilers: A Mendelian Randomization Study. International Journal of Molecular Sciences , 25(16), Article 8890. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25168890
Nielsen, V. H. & Kargo, M., (2024). Udfyldelse af FAOs spørgeskema til "State of The World" rapport nr. 3 - Danmarks bidrag, No. 2024-0704273, 167 p., Jul 12, 2024. Rådgivningsnotat fra DCA - Nationalt Center for Fødevarer og Jordbrug