Mathew D. Littlejohn

Livestock Improvement Corporation — New Zealand

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

27h-index2.4kcitations98works4.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock(51), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals(29), Animal Genetics and Reproduction(23), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research(19), Reproductive Physiology in Livestock(12)

Publications98 total

Bridging GWAS to genes: an integrative multi-omics approach using cattle data
BMC Genomics·2026Open Access
Structural and epistatic regulatory variants cause hallmark white spotting in cattle
Science Advances·2025Open Access
Bridging GWAS to genes: an integrative multi-omics approach using cattle data
2025Open Access
Survey of functional Mendelian variants in New Zealand Huntaway and Heading dog breeds
Animal Genetics·2025Open Access
Fine mapping highlights <i>ITGAL</i> and <i>MUS81</i> loss‐of‐function mutations modulating recessive impacts in dairy cattle
Animal Genetics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
An Increase in Male Recombination Rate With Age in Dairy Cattle Is Heritable and Polygenic
Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics·2025Open Access
An integrative approach to prioritize candidate causal genes for complex traits in cattle
PLoS Genetics·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Comparison of genomic prediction accuracies in dairy cattle lactation traits using five classes of functional variants versus generic SNP
Genetics Selection Evolution·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
The Farm Animal Genotype–Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) Project
Nature Genetics·2025· 30 citedOpen Access
Survey of Mendelian-effect functional variants in New Zealand Huntaway and Heading dog breeds
2025
An integrative approach to prioritize candidate causal genes for complex traits in cattle
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Allele-specific binding variants causing ChIP-seq peak height of histone modification are not enriched in expression QTL annotations
Genetics Selection Evolution·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
A common regulatory haplotype doubles lactoferrin concentration in milk
Genetics Selection Evolution·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Wool shedding and lamb fleece weights: first‐cross and backcross Wiltshire–Romney sheep scored at lamb, hogget and two‐tooth ages
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
An organism-wide ATAC-seq peak catalog for the bovine and its use to identify regulatory variants
Genome Research·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
A frameshift‐deletion mutation in Reelin causes cerebellar hypoplasia in White Swiss Shepherd dogs
Animal Genetics·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Development of SpCas9-expressing bovine mammary epithelial cell lines
In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal·2023
Additional file 5 of Genetic variation in histone modifications and gene expression identifies regulatory variants in the mammary gland of cattle
Figshare·2023Open Access
Additional file 1 of Genetic variation in histone modifications and gene expression identifies regulatory variants in the mammary gland of cattle
Figshare·2023Open Access
676. Epistatic interaction between <i>KIT</i> and <i>MITF</i> causes splotchy face in Hereford × dairy crossbred calves
2022
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Frequent Co-authors

Thomas Lopdell(23), Richard Spelman(22), Stephen R. Davis(20), Kathryn Tiplady(20), Russell G. Snell(19), Thomas Johnson(13), Dorian J. Garrick(10), Caroline Walker(10), B.L. Harris(9), Michael Keehan(9), Christine Couldrey(9), J.R. Roche(9), Klaus Lehnert(7), Richard G. Sherlock(7), Chad Harland(7), S. Meier(6), Murray D. Mitchell(6), Michael E. Goddard(6), Michel Georges(5), T Grala(5)