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Relationships among calpastatin single nucleotide polymorphisms, calpastatin expression and tenderness in pork longissimus.
Animal genetics - 1 Oct 2009
Lindholm-Perry A K, Rohrer G A, Holl J W, Shackelford S D, Wheeler T L, Koohmaraie M, Nonneman D
Abstract excerpt
Genome scans in the pig have identified a region on chromosome 2 (SSC2) associated with tenderness. Calpastatin is a likely positional candidate gene in this region because of its inhibitory role in the calpain system that is involved in postmortem tenderization. Novel single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in calpastatin were identified and used to genotype a population (n = 1042) of Duroc-Landrace-Yorkshire...
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