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The impact of a leptin gene SNP on beef calf weaning weights.
Animal genetics - 1 Jun 2008
DeVuyst E A, Bauer M L, Cheng F-C, Mitchell J, Larson D
Abstract excerpt
Prior research indicates that a SNP at position 305 of exon 2 in the leptin gene affects milk production in dairy cows. Dairy cows with at least one copy of the T allele have been shown to have higher milk production than CC cows. If that effect carries over to beef breeds, it is reasonable to expect that CT and TT beef cows will wean heavier calves than CC beef cows. We tested this hypothesis for a herd of mixed...
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