Article
Known mutation (A3072G) in intron 3 of the IGF2 gene is associated with growth and carcass composition in Polish pig breeds.
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Jan 2009
Oczkowicz M, Tyra M, Walinowicz K, Rózycki M, Rejduch B
Abstract excerpt
IGF2 is one of the genes that control muscle development. Moreover, IGF2 is imprinted, as only the paternal allele is expressed in the offspring. Using real-time PCR for IGF2 genotyping (Carrodegous et al. 2005), we evaluated the frequency of the IGF2 A3072G mutation (Van Laere et al. 2003) in pigs: Polish Landrace (PL, N = 271) and Large White (LW, N = 267). Our results are consistent with previous reports,...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Body Composition
- Breeding
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor II
- Introns
- Meat
- Mutation
- Poland
- Sus scrofa