Publications and communications of Latifa Karim

Tang, L., Swedlund, B., Dupont, S., Harland, C., Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Durkin, K., Artesi, M., Mullaart, E., Sartelet, A., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (09 March 2024). GWAS reveals determinants of mobilization rate and dynamics of an active endogenous retrovirus of cattle. Nature Communications, 15 (1), 2154. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-46434-1

Lee, Y. L., Bouwman, A. C., Harland, C., Bosse, M., Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Veerkamp, R. F., Mullaart, E., CAMBISANO, N., Groenen, M. A. M., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (2023). The rate of de novo structural variation is increased in in vitro-produced offspring and preferentially affects the paternal genome. Genome Research. doi:10.1101/gr.277884.123

Lee, Y. L., Bosse, M., Takeda, H., Moreira, G. C. M., Karim, L., Druet, T., Oget-Ebrad, C., Coppieters, W., Veerkamp, R. F., Groenen, M. A. M., Georges, M., Bouwman, A. C., & Charlier, C. (01 May 2023). High-resolution structural variants catalogue in a large-scale whole genome sequenced bovine family cohort data. BMC Genomics, 24 (1), 225. doi:10.1186/s12864-023-09259-8

Hoogstrate, Y., Draaisma, K., Ghisai, S. A., van Hijfte, L., Barin, N., de Heer, I., Coppieters, W., van den Bosch, T. P. P., Bolleboom, A., Gao, Z., Vincent, A. J. P. E., Karim, L., Deckers, M., Taphoorn, M. J. B., Kerkhof, M., Weyerbrock, A., Sanson, M., Hoeben, A., Lukacova, S., ... French, P. J. (10 April 2023). Transcriptome analysis reveals tumor microenvironment changes in glioblastoma. Cancer Cell, 41 (4), 678 - 692.e7. doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2023.02.019

Georges, A., Lavergne, A., Mandai, M., Lepiemme, F., Karim, L., Demeulenaere, L., Aguilar Ortmans, D., Schyns, M., Nguyen, L., Rakic, J.-M., Takahashi, M., Georges, M., & Takeda, H. (21 January 2023). Comparing the transcriptome of developing native and iPSC-derived mouse retinae by single cell RNA sequencing. Scientific Reports, 13 (1), 1223. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-28429-y

Stulanovic, N., Deflandre, B., Planckaert Sören, Anderssen, S., Bonometti, B., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Devreese Bart, & Rigali, S. (10 September 2022). The virulome of Streptomyces scabiei [Poster presentation]. Summer School in Applied Molecular Microbiology 2022, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Lee, Y. L., Bosse, M., Coppieters, W., Veerkamp, R., Karim, L., Oget, C., Druet, T., Groenen, M., Georges, M., Bouwman, A., & Charlier, C. (08 July 2022). Rare CNVs in the bovine genome are not captured well by 50K density genotyping array SNPs [Paper presentation]. World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Oget, C., Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Charlier, C., Georges, M., & Druet, T. (08 July 2022). Fine-Scale Study of Meiotic Recombination in Cattle [Paper presentation]. World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Rombouts, T., Druet, T., Gualdron Duarte, J. L., Ahariz, N., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., De Smet, S., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (08 July 2022). A hypomorphic mutation in the ATP2A1 gene increases muscle mass yet compromises meat quality of Belgian Blue cattle [Paper presentation]. World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Stulanovic, N., Deflandre, B., Planckaert Sören, Anderssen, S., Bonometti, B., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Bart Devreese, & Rigali, S. (19 June 2022). The virulome of Streptomyces scabiei in response to cello-oligosaccharide elicitors [Poster presentation]. Meeting of the 19th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes, Toronto, Canada.

Tokunaga, Y., Wéry, M., Mayer, A., Karim, L., Azarzar, S., Demeulenaere, L., Petrov, V., Deckers, M., Detry, E., Coppieters, W., LOUIS, E., Georges, M., & Rahmouni, S. (09 April 2022). Single cell RNA sequencing to uncover intestinal cell-type specific cis-eQTL driving inherited predisposition to IBD [Paper presentation]. Keystone symposia Single Cell Biology, Florence, Italy.

Deflandre, B.* , Stulanovic, N.* , Planckaert, S., Anderssen, S., Bonometti, B., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Devreese, B., & Rigali, S. (2022). The virulome of Streptomyces scabiei in response to cello- oligosaccharide elicitors. Microbial Genomics. doi:10.1099/mgen.0.000760

Oget, C., Kadri, N. K., Moreira, G. C. M., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Druet, T. (2022). Benchmarking phasing software with a whole-genome sequenced cattle pedigree. BMC Genomics, 23 (1), 130. doi:10.1186/s12864-022-08354-6

Oget, C., Kadri, N. K., Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Druet, T. (02 September 2021). Benchmarking phasing software with whole-genome sequenced cattle trios [Paper presentation]. 72nd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), Davos, Switzerland.

Tang, L., Harland, C., Durkin, K., Artesi, M., Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Karim, L., Deckers, M., Mullaart, E., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (11 May 2021). Evidence for inter-individual variation of ERV de novo transposition rate in the male cattle germline [Paper presentation]. The Biology of Genomes, United States.

Perée, H., Mayer, A., Takeda, H., Karim, L., Deckers, M., Jacques, S., Mni, M., Wéry, M., Azarzar, S., Tokunaga, Y., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Rahmouni, S. (May 2021). Comparative analysis of ultra low input RNA sequencing methods for the study of rare immune cell populations [Poster presentation]. 33rd meeting on The Biology of Genomes.

Payen, V. L.* , Lavergne, A.* , Alevra Sarika, N., Colonval, M., Karim, L., Deckers, M., Najimi, M., Coppieters, W., CHARLOTEAUX, B., Sokal, E. M., & El Taghdouini, A. (21 March 2021). Single-cell RNA sequencing of human liver reveals hepatic stellate cell heterogeneity. JHEP Reports: Innovation in Hepatology, 3 (3), 100278. doi:10.1016/j.jhepr.2021.100278

Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Tang, L., Dupont, S., Young-Lim, L., Harland, C., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (2021). LIVE (EPI)GENOMIC BATTLE BETWEEN UNFIXED TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS AND THEIR COGNATE piRNA CLUSTERS IN CATTLE TESTES [Paper presentation]. The Biology of Genomes.

Lee, Y.-L., Takeda, H., Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Karim, L., Mullaart, E., Coppieters, W., Appeltant, R., Veerkamp, R. F., Groenen, M. A. M., Georges, M., Bosse, M., Druet, T., Bouwman, A. C., & Charlier, C. (2021). A 12 kb multi-allelic copy number variation encompassing a GC gene enhancer is associated with mastitis resistance in dairy cattle. PLoS Genetics, 17 (7), 1009331. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1009331

Young-Lim, L., Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Karim, L., Mullart, E., Coppieters, W., Veerkamp, R., Groenen, M., Bosse, M., Bouwman, A., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (2021). Pedigree-based de novo rate estimation for structural variation in the cattle germline [Poster presentation]. The Biology of Genomes.

Lee, Y.-L., Takeda, H., Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Karim, L., Bosse, M., Bouwan, A., Mullaart, E., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., Druet, T., & Charlier, C. (02 December 2020). Fine resolution CNV catalogue from deeply sequenced cattle genomes [Paper presentation]. EAAP annual meeting.

Tang, L., Harland, C., Durkin, K., Artesi, M., Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Karim, L., Deckers, M., Mullaart, E., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (06 October 2020). INTER-INDIVIDUAL VARIATION OF DE NOVO ERV TRANSPOSITION RATE IN THE CATTLE GERMLINE [Poster presentation]. Transposable Elements, United States.

Coppieters, W., Karim, L., & Georges, M. (August 2020). SNP-based quantitative deconvolution of biological mixtures: application to the detection of cows with subclinical mastitis by whole-genome sequencing of tank milk. Genome Research, 30 (8), 1201 - 1207. doi:10.1101/gr.256172.119

Artesi, M., Tamma, N., Deckers, M., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Van den Broeke, A., Georges, M., Charlier, C., & Durkin, K. (2020). Colour-sidedness in Gloucester cattle is associated with a complex structural variant impacting regulatory elements downstream of KIT. Animal Genetics. doi:10.1111/age.12932

GEORGES, A., Lavergne, A., Mandai, M., Lepiemme, F., Karim, L., Demeulenaere, L., Aguilar Ortmans, D., Schyns, M., Nguyen, L., RAKIC, J.-M., Takahashi, M., Georges, M., & Takeda, H. (2020). Combined analysis of single cell RNA-Seq and ATAC-Seq data reveals putative regulatory toggles operating in native and iPS-derived retina. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/292544. doi:10.1101/2020.03.02.972497

Costa Monteiro Moreira, G., Tang, L., Dupont, S., Harland, C., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (2020). BIRTH OF POLYMORPHIC PIRNA CLUSTERS DRIVEN BY TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT INSERTIONS IN THE MALE CATTLE GERMLINE [Poster presentation]. Transposable Elements Meeting.

Debode, F., Hulin, J., CHARLOTEAUX, B., Coppieters, W., Hanikenne, M., Karim, L., & Berben, G. (2019). Detection and identification of transgenic events by next generation sequencing combined with enrichment technologies. Scientific Reports, 9 (1), 15595. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51668-x

Rapino, F., Delaunay, S., Rambow, F., Zhou, Z., Tharun, L., De Tullio, P., Sin, O., Shostak, K., Schmitz, S., Piepers, J., Guesquière, B., Karim, L., Charloteaux, B., Jamart, D., Florin, A., Lambert, C., RORIVE, A., JERUSALEM, G., Leucci, E., ... Close, P. (28 June 2018). Codon-specific translation reprogramming promotes resistance to targeted therapy. Nature, 558, 605-609. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0243-7

Naomé, A., Maciejewska, M., Calusinska, M., Martinet, L., Anderssen, S., Adam, D., Tenconi, E., Deflandre, B., Coppieters, W., Karim, L., Hanikenne, M., Baurain, D., Delfosse, P., van Wezel, G., & Rigali, S. (May 2018). Complete Genome Sequence of Streptomyces lunaelactis MM109T, Isolated from Cave Moonmilk Deposits. Genome Announcements, 6 (21), 00435-18. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00435-18

Kadri, N. K., Harland, C., Charlier, C., Karim, L., Cambisano, N., Deckers, M., Mullaart, E., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Druet, T. (2018). High resolution mapping of cross-over events in cattle using NGS data. In Proceedings of the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production.

Adam, D., Maciejewska, M., Naomé, A., Martinet, L., Coppieters, W., Karim, L., Baurain, D., & Rigali, S. (2018). Isolation, Characterization, and Antibacterial Activity of Hard-to-Culture Actinobacteria from Cave Moonmilk Deposits. Antibiotics, 7(2) (28), 10.3390/antibiotics7020028. doi:10.3390/antibiotics7020028

Harland, C., Charlier, C., Karim, L., Cambisano, N., Deckers, M., Mni, M., Mullaart, E., Coppieters, W., & Georges, M. (2017). Frequency of mosaicism points towards mutation-prone early cleavage cell divisions in cattle. BioRxiv. doi:10.1101/079863

Wenric, S., El Guendi, S., CABERG, J.-H., Bezzaou, W., Fasquelle, C., Charloteaux, B., Karim, L., Hennuy, B., FRERES, P., COLLIGNON, J., BOUKERROUCHA, M., SCHROEDER, H., Olivier, F., Jossa, V., JERUSALEM, G., JOSSE, C., & BOURS, V. (May 2017). Transcriptome wide analysis of natural antisense transcripts shows potential role in breast cancer [Poster presentation]. 50th meeting of the European Society of Human Genetics, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Wenric, S., ElGuendi, S., CABERG, J.-H., Bezzaou, W., Fasquelle, C., Charloteaux, B., Karim, L., Hennuy, B., FRERES, P., COLLIGNON, J., BOUKERROUCHA, M., SCHROEDER, H., OLIVIER, F., Jossa, V., Jerusalem, G., JOSSE, C., & Bours, V. (2017). Transcriptome-wide analysis of natural antisense transcripts shows their potential role in breast cancer. Scientific Reports, 7 (1), 17452. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17811-2

Charlier, C., Li, W., Harland, C., Littlejohn, M., Coppieters, W., Creagh, F., Davis, S., Druet, T., Faux, P., Guillaume, F., Karim, L., Keehan, M., Kadri, N. K., Tamma, N., Spelman, R., & Georges, M. (19 September 2016). NGS- based reverse genetic screen for common embryonic lethal mutations compromising fertility in livestock. Genome Research, 26:1-9. doi:10.1101/gr.207076.116

Sartelet, A., Harland, C., Tamma, N., Karim, L., Bayrou, C., Li, W., Ahariz, N., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (07 July 2016). A stop-gain in the laminin, alpha 3 gene causes recessive junctional epidermolysis bullosa in Belgian Bleu cattle [Paper presentation]. XXIXth World Buiatrics Congress, Dublin, Ireland.

Kadri, N. K., Harland, C., Faux, P., Cambisano, N., Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Fritz, S., Mullaart, E., Boichard, D., Spelman, R., Charlier, C., Georges, M., & Druet, T. (15 June 2016). Sequence-based association analysis identifies coding and non-coding variants in HFM1, MLH3, MSH4, MSH5, RNF212 and RNF212B with large effects on male and female recombination rate in cattle [Poster presentation]. 5th International Congress on Quantitative Genetics, Madison, United States.

Kadri, N. K., Harland, C., Faux, P., Cambisano, Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Fritz, S., Mullaart, E., Boichard, D., Spelman, R., Charlier, C., Georges, M., & Druet, T. (11 May 2016). HIGHER MALE THAN FEMALE RECOMBINATION RATE LARGELY CONTROLLED BY MISSENSE VARIANTS IN RNF212, MLH3, HFM1, MSH5 AND MSH4 IN CATTLE [Poster presentation]. Cold Spring Harbor meetings: the biology of genomes.

Sartelet, A.* , Harland, C.* , Tamma, N., Karim, L., Bayrou, C., Li, W., Ahariz, N., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (October 2015). A stop-gain in the laminin, alpha 3 gene causes recessive junctional epidermolysis bullosa in Belgian Blue cattle. Animal Genetics, 46 (5), 566-570. doi:10.1111/age.12342

Sartelet, A.* , Li, W.* , Pailhoux, E., Richard, C., Tamma, N., Karim, L., Fasquelle, C., Druet, T., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (2015). Genome-wide next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing reveals a mutation that perturbs splicing of the phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis class H gene (PIGH) and causes arthrogryposis in Belgian Blue cattle. BMC Genomics, 16 (316). doi:10.1186/s12864-015-1528-y

Mariman, R., Coppieters, W., Elansary, M., Karim, L., Crins, F., Mni, M., Gori, A.-S., Aoun, N., Docampo Martínez, E., Dmitrieva, J. B., Fang, M., Theatre, E., Eppe, G., & Georges, M. (24 April 2014). Identification of molecular components of the host-microbiota-connectome by using "Omics Approaches" [Poster presentation]. BeMGI.

Kumar Kadri, N., Sahana, G., Charlier, C., Iso-Touru, T., Guldbrandtsen, B., Karim, L., Sander Nielsen, U., Panitz, F., Pedersen Aamand, G., Schulman, N., Georges, M., Vilkki, J., Sandø Lund, M., & Druet, T. (January 2014). A 660-Kb Deletion with Antagonistic Effects on Fertility and Milk Production Segregates at High Frequency in Nordic Red Cattle: Additional Evidence for the Common Occurrence of Balancing Selection in Livestock. PLoS Genetics, 10 (1), 1004049. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004049

GEORGES, A., Cambisano, N., Ahariz, N., Karim, L., & Georges, M. (December 2013). A genome scan conducted in a multigenerational pedigree with convergent strabismus supports a complex genetic determinism. PLoS ONE, 8 (12), 83574. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083574

Sartelet, A., Li, W., Pailhoux Eric, Tamma, N., Karim, L., Fasquelle, C., Druet, T., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (2013). A splice-acceptor site variant in the bovine PIGH gene causes glycosylphosphatidyl inositol deficiency and lethal arthrogryposis syndrome. In C. Bayrou, J.-F. Cabaraux, C. Delguste, T. Jauniaux, A. Sartelet, ... D. Votion (Eds.), Proccedings of the 3rd Scientific Meetingof the Faculty of Veterinary Medecine (pp. 27). Liège, Belgium: Presses de la Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire.

Sartelet, A., Li, W., Pailhoux, E., Tamma, N., Karim, L., Fasquelle, C., Druet, T., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (29 August 2013). A splice-acceptor site variant in the bovine PIGH gene causes glycosylphosphatidyl inositol deficiency and lethal arthrogryposis syndrome [Poster presentation]. Buiatrissima - 8th ECBHM Symposium, Berne, Switzerland.

Sartelet, A., Li, W., Pailhoux, E., Tamma, N., Karim, L., Fasquelle, C., Druet, T., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (28 January 2013). A splice-acceptor site variant in the bovine PIGH gene causes glycosylphosphatidyl inositol deficiency and lethal arthrogryposis syndrome [Poster presentation]. GIGA-DAY, Liège, Belgium.

Durkin, K., Coppieters, W., Drogemuller, C., Ahariz, N., Cambisano, N., Druet, T., Fasquelle, C., Haile, A., Horin, P., Huang, L., Kamatani, Y., Karim, L., Lathrop, M., Moser, S., Oldenbroek, K., Rieder, S., Sartelet, A., Solkner, J., Stalhammar, H., ... Charlier, C. (02 February 2012). Serial translocation by means of circular intermediates underlies colour sidedness in cattle. Nature, 482 (7383), 81-4. doi:10.1038/nature10757

Charlier, C., Agerholm, J. S., Coppieters, W., Karlskov-Mortensen, P., Li, W., de Jong, G., Fasquelle, C., Karim, L., Cirera, S., Cambisano, N., Ahariz, N., Mullaart, E., Georges, M., & Fredholm, M. (2012). A deletion in the bovine FANCI gene compromises fertility by causing fetal death and brachyspina. PLoS ONE, 7 (8), 43085. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043085

Durkin, K., Cambisano, N., Ahariz, N., Fasquelle, C., Karim, L., Sartelet, A., Baurain, D., Drogemüller, C., Leeb, T., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (May 2011). Molecular dissection of the color-sided phenotype in cattle reveals a novel mechanism of chromosome evolution involving circular shuttling intermediates. Chromosome Research, 19 (S1), 18.

Durkin, K., Cambisano, N., Ahariz, N., Fasquelle, C., Karim, L., Sartelet, A., Drogemüller, C., Leeb, T., Coppieters, W., Georges, M., & Charlier, C. (May 2011). Molecular dissection of the color-sided pehnotype in cattle reveals a novel mechanism of chromosome evolution involving circular shuttling intermediates [Poster presentation]. The Biology Of Genomes, Cold Spring Harbor, United States - New York.

Karim, L.* , Takeda, H.* , Lin, L.* , Druet, T.* , Arias, J. A. C., Baurain, D., Cambisano, N., Davis, S. R., Farnir, F., Grisart, B., Harris, B. L., Keehan, M. D., Littlejohn, M. D., Spelman, R. J., Georges, M.* , & Coppieters, W.*. (2011). Variants modulating the expression of a chromosome domain encompassing PLAG1 influence bovine stature. Nature Genetics, 43 (5), 405-13. doi:10.1038/ng.814

Blott, S., Kim, Schmidt-Kuntzel, A., Cornet, A., Berzi, P., Cambisano, N., Grisart, B., Karim, L., Simon, P., Georges, M., Farnir, F., Coppieters, W., Moisio, S., Vilkki, J., Johnson, D., Spelman, R., Ford, C., & Snell, R. (05 August 2008). Marker assisted selection of bovine for improved milk composition.

Charlier, C., Coppieters, W., Rollin, F., Desmecht, D., Agerholm, J. S., Cambisano, N., Carta, E., Dardano, S., Dive, M., Fasquelle, C., Frennet, J.-C., Hanset, R., Hubin, X., Jorgensen, C., Karim, L., Kent, M., Harvey, K., Pearce, B. R., Simon, P., ... Georges, M. (2008). Highly effective SNP-based association mapping and management of recessive defects in livestock. Nature Genetics, 40 (4), 449-54. doi:10.1038/ng.96

Grisart, B., Farnir, F., Karim, L., Cambisano, N., Kim, J.-J., Kvasz, A., Mni, M., Simon, P., Frère, J.-M., Coppieters, W., & Georges, M. (2004). Genetic and functional confirmation of the causality of the DGAT1 K232A quantitative trait nucleotide in affecting milk yield and composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101 (8), 2398-2403. doi:10.1073/pnas.0308518100

Blott, S., Kim, J.-J., Moisio, S., Schmidt-Kuntzel, A., Cornet, A., Berzi, P., Cambisano, N., Ford, C., Grisart, B., Johnson, D., Karim, L., Simon, P., Snell, R., Spelman, R., Wong, J., Vilkki, J., Georges, M., Farnir, F., & Coppieters, W. (2003). Molecular dissection of a quantitative trait locus: a phenylalanine-to-tyrosine substitution in the transmembrane domain of the bovine growth hormone receptor is associated with a major effect on milk yield and composition. Genetics, 163 (1), 253-66.

Farnir, F., Grisart, B., Coppieters, W., Riquet, J., Berzi, P., Cambisano, N., Karim, L., Mni, M., Moisio, S., Simon, P., Wagenaar, D., Vilkki, J., & Georges, M. (2002). Simultaneous mining of linkage and linkage disequilibrium to fine map quantitative trait loci in outbred half-sib pedigrees: Revisiting the location of a quantitative trait locus with major effect on milk production on bovine chromosome 14. Genetics, 161 (1), 275-287.

Grisart, B., Coppieters, W., Farnir, F., Karim, L., Ford, C., Berzi, P., Cambisano, N., Mni, M., Reid, S., Simon, P., Spelman, R., Georges, M., & Snell, R. (2002). Positional candidate cloning of a QTL in dairy cattle: Identification of a missense mutation in the bovine DGAT1 gene with major effect on milk yield and composition. Genome Research, 12 (2), 222-231. doi:10.1101/gr.224202

Charlier, C., SEGERS, K., Karim, L., Shay, T., Gyapay, G., Cockett, N., & Georges, M. (2001). The callipyge (CLPG) mutation enhances the expression of the coregulated DLK1, GTL2, PEG11 and MEG8 genes in cis without affecting their imprinting status. Nature Genetics, 27, 367-369. doi:10.1038/86856

Charlier, C., SEGERS, K., Wagenaar, D., Karim, L., Berghmans, S., Jaillon, O., Shay, T., Weissenbach, J., Cockett, N., Gyapay, G., & Georges, M. (2001). Human - ovine comparative sequencing of a 250 kilobase imprinted domain encompassing the callipyge (clpg) gene and identification of six imprinted transcripts: DLK1, DAT, GTL2, PEG11, antiPEG11 and MEG8. Genome Research, 11, 850-862. doi:10.1101/gr.172701

Farnir, F., Coppieters, W., Arranz, J. J., Berzi, P., Cambisano, N., Grisart, B., Karim, L., Marcq, F., Moreau, L., Mni, M., Nezer, C., Simon, P., Vanmanshoven, P., Wagenaar, D., & Georges, M. (February 2000). Extensive Genome-Wide Linkage Disequilibrium in Cattle. Genome Research, 10 (2), 220-7. doi:10.1101/gr.10.2.220

Karim, L., Coppieters, W., Grobet, L., Valentini, A., & Georges, M. (2000). Convenient Genotyping of Six Myostatin Mutations Causing Double-Muscling in Cattle Using a Multiplex Oligonucleotide Ligation Assay. Animal Genetics, 31 (6), 396-9. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2052.2000.00684.x

Nezer, C., Moreau, L., Brouwers, B., Coppieters, W., Detilleux, J., Hanset, R., Karim, L., Kvasz, A., Leroy, P., & Georges, M. (1999). An imprinted QTL with major effect on muscle mass and fat deposition maps to the IgfII locus in pigs. Nature Genetics, 21, 155-156. doi:10.1038/5935

Riquet, J., Coppieters, W., Cambisano, N., Arranz, J. J., Berzi, P., Davis, S. K., Grisart, B., Farnir, F., Karim, L., Mni, M., Simon, P., Taylor, J. F., Vanmanshoven, P., Wagenaar, D., Womack, J. E., & Georges, M. (1999). Fine-Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci by Identity by Descent in Outbred Populations: Application to Milk Production in Dairy Cattle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 96 (16), 9252-9257. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.16.9252

Arranz, J. J., Coppieters, W., Berzi, P., Cambisano, N., Grisart, B., Karim, L., Marcq, F., Moreau, L., Mezer, C., Riquet, J., Simon, P., Vanmanshoven, P., Wagenaar, D., & Georges, M. (1998). A Qtl Affecting Milk Yield and Composition Maps to Bovine Chromosome 20: A Confirmation. Animal Genetics, 29 (2), 107-15. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2052.1998.00307.x

Coppieters, W., Riquet, J., Arranz, J. J., Berzi, P., Cambisano, N., Grisart, B., Karim, L., Marcq, F., Moreau, L., Nezer, C., Simon, P., Vanmanshoven, P., Wagenaar, D., & Georges, M. (1998). A Qtl with Major Effect on Milk Yield and Composition Maps to Bovine Chromosome 14. Mammalian Genome, 9 (7), 540-4. doi:10.1007/s003359900815