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Characterization of DGAT1 allelic effects in a sample of North American Holstein cattle.
Animal biotechnology - 1 Apr 2010
Barbosa da Silva Marcos Vinicius G, Sonstegard Tad S, Thallman Richard M, Connor Erin E, Schnabel Robert D, Van Tassell Curt P
Abstract excerpt
A putative causative mutation underlying a QTL was identified as a lysine to alanine non-conservative substitution at amino acid 232 of the gene encoding the acylCoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT1) protein. Our goal was to characterize the allelic substitution effects of this DGAT1 mutation in a large sample of Holstein bulls from North America. Statistically significant effects were identified for all of...
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