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Identification of microsatellites in expressed muscle genes: assessment of a desmin (CT) dinucleotide repeat as a marker for meat quality.
Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997) - 1 Mar 2003
Chang K C, Beuzen N D, Hall A D
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the presence of dinucleotide repeats (microsatellites) in a porcine skeletal muscle cDNA library. In total, microsatellites were found in nearly 4% of all muscle cDNA clones, of which CT- and TG-repeats were the most prevalent. We found a near full-length desmin cDNA clone with a CT-repeat sited downstream from its stop codon. From 44 commercially reared pigs, six allelic length polymorphisms were...
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