Yudong Cai

This study identifies three genomic regions and 12 candidate genes associated with age at first service in Chinese Holstein heifers using GWAS and colocalization analysis, highlighting ANAPC4 as a putative causal gene.

The paper identifies LCORL and STC2 variants associated with increased body size and growth rate in cattle and other domesticated animals through genetic analysis and mouse models.

GP-ML-DC improves genome prediction by combining machine learning and deep learning with a two-phase dimensionality reduction approach, outperforming existing methods on cattle milk traits.

The paper sequenced clonal Fuji apple varieties to uncover somatic variants linked to spur-type morphology and early maturation traits.

The paper sequences ancient genomes of Sussemionus, re-dating its extinction to the late Holocene and revealing genetic divergence and admixture events in the Equus lineage.

This study identifies introgression and selection events in goat domestication, linking them to immune and behavioral genes.

The paper constructs a pig pan-genome using multiple de novo assemblies and Hi-C data, identifying novel sequences and improving SNP calling for genetic diversity analysis.