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Cross-breed comparisons identified a critical 591-kb region for bovine carcass weight QTL (CW-2) on chromosome 6 and the Ile-442-Met substitution in NCAPG as a positional candidate.
BMC genetics - 4 Aug 2009
Setoguchi Kouji, Furuta Masako, Hirano Takashi, Nagao Tomoko, Watanabe Toshio, Sugimoto Yoshikazu, Takasuga Akiko
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Growth-related traits have been mapped on bovine chromosome 6 (BTA 6) in various bovine breed populations. We previously mapped a significant quantitative trait locus (QTL) for carcass and body weight (CW-2) between 38 and 55 cM on BTA 6 using a Japanese Black half-sib family. Additional QTL mapping studies detected four QTL for body or carcass weight that overlapped with CW-2 in Japanese Black and...
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