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Advances in Swine Biomedical Model Genomics

Joan K. Lunney

APDL, BARC, ARS, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA

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Lunney JK. Advances in Swine Biomedical Model Genomics. Int J Biol Sci 2007; 3(3):179-184. doi:10.7150/ijbs.3.179. https://www.ijbs.com/v03p0179.htm
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Abstract

This review is a short update on the diversity of swine biomedical models and the importance of genomics in their continued development. The swine has been used as a major mammalian model for human studies because of the similarity in size and physiology, and in organ development and disease progression. The pig model allows for deliberately timed studies, imaging of internal vessels and organs using standard human technologies, and collection of repeated peripheral samples and, at kill, detailed mucosal tissues. The ability to use pigs from the same litter, or cloned or transgenic pigs, facilitates comparative analyses and genetic mapping. The availability of numerous well defined cell lines, representing a broad range of tissues, further facilitates testing of gene expression, drug susceptibility, etc. Thus the pig is an excellent biomedical model for humans. For genomic applications it is an asset that the pig genome has high sequence and chromosome structure homology with humans. With the swine genome sequence now well advanced there are improving genetic and proteomic tools for these comparative analyses. The review will discuss some of the genomic approaches used to probe these models. The review will highlight genomic studies of melanoma and of infectious disease resistance, discussing issues to consider in designing such studies. It will end with a short discussion of the potential for genomic approaches to develop new alternatives for control of the most economically important disease of pigs, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), and the potential for applying knowledge gained with this virus for human viral infectious disease studies.

Keywords: swine, humans, genomics, gene expression, biomedical model


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Lunney, J.K. (2007). Advances in Swine Biomedical Model Genomics. International Journal of Biological Sciences, 3(3), 179-184. https://doi.org/10.7150/ijbs.3.179.

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Lunney, J.K. Advances in Swine Biomedical Model Genomics. Int. J. Biol. Sci. 2007, 3 (3), 179-184. DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.3.179.

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Lunney JK. Advances in Swine Biomedical Model Genomics. Int J Biol Sci 2007; 3(3):179-184. doi:10.7150/ijbs.3.179. https://www.ijbs.com/v03p0179.htm

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Lunney JK. 2007. Advances in Swine Biomedical Model Genomics. Int J Biol Sci. 3(3):179-184.

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