An across breed, diet and tissue analysis reveals the transcription factor NR1H3 as a key mediator of residual feed intake in beef cattle

Table 1 Numbers of genes expressed and identified as differentially expressed within RFI, diet and breed contrasts across liver and muscle tissues

Contrast	Number of expressed genes	Top 5% DEG¹	Genes specific to contrast²	Genes in common with other contrasts
Liver-RFI	12,161	608	454 (74.7%)	25.3%
Liver-diet	12,581	629	511 (81.2%)	18.8%
Liver-breed	12,114	605	421 (69.6%)	30.4%
Muscle-RFI	10,618	530	333 (62.8%)	37.2%
Muscle-diet	11,075	553	424 (76.7%)	23.3%
Muscle-breed	10,655	531	312 (58.8%)	41.2%

¹All expressed genes were assessed for differential expression and the top 5% most significantly different of the expressed genes were deemed to be DEGs
²Considering all six contrasts

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