Table 3. Expression changes of the candidate genes in bovine mammary tissue with high milk protein percentage compared to low milk protein percentage at peak lactation.

Symbol	CHR	No. Reads	Log2 fold change	Gene name	q-value
SERPINA1	21	492.04	2.51	Serpin peptidase inhibitor, clade A, member 1	1.17E-09
CLU	8	2964.18	1.34	Clusterin	6.93E-03
CNTFR	8	991.80	−0.95	Ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor	1.40E-06
ERBB2	19	638.15	1.00	Erb-b2 receptor tyrosine kinase 2	5.25E-03
NEDD4L	24	796.05	1.16	Neural precursor cell expressed, developmentally down-regulated 4-like, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase	4.13E-05
ANG	10	4945.54	−0.85	Angiogenin, ribonuclease, RNase A family, 5	5.27E-07
GALE	2	609.70	−0.74	UDP-galactose-4-epimerase	4.41E-03
HSPA8	15	9488.17	−1.13	Heat shock 70kDa protein 8	2.91E-02
LPAR6	12	488.54	0.85	Lysophosphatidic acid receptor 6	1.90E-03
CD14	7	2619.05	−1.03	CD14 molecule	6.78E-04
WAP	19	40.75	−3.84	WAP four-disulfide core domain protein 18-like	1.62E-15
NARS	24	2664.23	−0.57	Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase	2.78E-02
MARS	5	930.09	−0.85	Methionyl-tRNA synthetase	1.89E-02
GARS	4	1681.16	−0.90	Glycyl-tRNA synthetase	1.74E-02
CDO1	10	415.98	1.20	Cysteine dioxygenase type 1	1.61E-02
GATM	10	73.89	1.04	Glycine amidinotransferase	2.25E-02
INSR	7	556.70	0.69	Insulin receptor	4.33E-03
IGF1R	21	528.35	0.80	Insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor	1.11E-03
IGFBP3	4	680.00	0.81	Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3	1.45E-03
CRIM1	11	661.78	0.82	Cysteine rich transmembrane BMP regulator 1	1.02E-04