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A novel single-nucleotide polymorphism of the visfatin gene and its associations with performance traits in the chicken.
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Jan 2010
Han R-L, Lan X-Y, Zhang L-Z, Ren G, Jing Y-J, Li M-J, Zhang B, Zhao M, Guo Y-K, Kang X-T, Chen H
Abstract excerpt
Visfatin is a peptide that is predominantly expressed in visceral adipose tissue and is hypothesized to be related to obesity and insulin resistance. In this study, a novel silent single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was found in exon 7 of the chicken visfatin gene (also known as PBEF1) by single...
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