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Nucleotide sequence polymorphism within exon 4 of the bovine prolactin gene and its associations with milk performance traits.
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Jan 2005
Brym Paweł, Kamiński Stanisław, Wójcik Elzbieta
Abstract excerpt
Prolactin plays an important regulatory function in mammary gland development, milk secretion, and expression of milk protein genes. Hence the PRL gene is a potential quantitative trait locus and genetic marker of production traits in dairy cattle. We analysed the sequence of the PRL gene to investigate whether mutations in this sequence might be responsible for quantitative variations in milk yield and...
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