Table 3. Selected genes differentially expressed in cashmere goat skin during the HF initiation.

Class	Gene	Gene Name	log2 Fold Change		P value		FDR
			E120/E60	NB/E60	E120/E60	NB/E60	E120/E60	NB/E60
ECM-receptor interaction
	ITGA5	integrin alpha 5	-1.200	-1.280	0.0006	0.0004	0.0247	0.0134
	ITGA11	integrin alpha-11	-	-1.653	-	0.0057	-	0.0417
	ITGA9	Integrin, alpha-9	-2.152	-2.799	0.0007	0.0003	0.0258	0.0124
	THBS3	thrombospondin 3	-1.785	-1.807	0.0033	0.0027	0.0438	0.0293
	THBS2	thrombospondin 2	-	-1.261	-	0.0016	-	0.0233
	THBS4	thrombospondin-4	-	-2.820	-	0.0071	-	0.0470
	SDC3	syndecan 3	-1.123	-2.062	0.0006	0.0001	0.0246	0.0088
	COL5A3	collagen type V alpha 3	-1.781	-1.859	0.0034	0.0032	0.0441	0.0318
	COL5A2	collagen type V alpha 2	-1.975	-2.354	0.0028	0.0012	0.0415	0.0208
	COL5A1	collagen type V alpha 1	-2.294	-2.714	0.0001	0.0000	0.0147	0.0037
	HSPG2	heparan sulfate proteoglycan 2	-	-1.334	-	0.0035	-	0.0330
	TNC	tenascin	-4.707	-4.900	0.0003	0.0003	0.0198	0.0114
Glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis—keratan sulfate
	B4GALT4	UDP-Gal:betaGlcNAc beta 1,4- galactosyltransferase, polypeptide 4, transcript variant X1	-1.500	-1.910	0.0007	0.0001	0.0262	0.0088
	ST3GAL1	ST3 beta-galactoside alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase 1, transcript variant X1	-1.740	-2.160	0.0038	0.0048	0.0460	0.0385
	ST3GAL1	ST3 beta-galactoside alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase 1, transcript variant X2	-	-3.030	-	0.0046	-	0.0375
growth factor receptors
	FRS3	fibroblast growth factor receptor substrate 3	-	-1.211	-	0.0035	-	0.0331
	FGFR1	fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 isoform X6	-	-1.218	-	0.0002	-	0.0114