Chinese and Danish scientists will jointly decipher the genetic code of domestic pigs (7.5)

OA_show('918'); Beijing, July 3 (reporter Xue Dong) the "China Denmark pig genome project" co authored by the human genome center of Institute of genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Huada gene research center and six Danish scientific research institutions (Royal University of agriculture and animal husbandry, orfers University, Danish Agricultural Research Institute, University of Southern Denmark, noanord company, etc.) was officially launched today, indicating that Chinese and Danish scientists will work together to decipher Genetic code of domestic pig Dr Yang Huanming and Zhang Meng, human genome center of Institute of genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced that the pig genome project is the second project of "China biological resources genome project" launched after China successfully completed the "working framework map" of the international human genome 1% plan The first project is a unique Super Hybrid in China that was recently cooperated with Academician Yuan Longping and Professor Zhu Lihuang Rice genome project Experts said that the reason why rice and domestic pigs were selected as the first start-up projects of the genome project is that rice and domestic pigs are so important to China, both of which play an important role in China's national economy China is the country with the largest number of pigs in the world, pork is the first source of protein intake by Chinese people, while Denmark is the country with the largest number of pigs per capita in the world, and the consumption of pork per capita ranks the first in the world, which shows that this study is of great significance to both China and Denmark The main functions of this research are: first, it can cultivate good varieties of pigs, improve the lean meat ratio, improve the meat quality and nutrition, accelerate the growth rate and efficient reproduction rate of pigs; second, from the perspective of medicine and biotechnology, pigs will be one of the best choices for human organ transplantation and disease model It is understood that the first phase of this project mainly includes: completing high-precision genetic map and physical map of genome; whole genome "working framework map", covering about 95% of gene sequence and gene expression map, etc The future high-level research also includes: genetic information oriented pig breeding; transgenic pigs, especially the research and application of transgenic organs China feed industry information network