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Predictive markers in calpastatin for tenderness in commercial pig populations.
Journal of animal science - 1 Sept 2011
Nonneman D, Lindholm-Perry A K, Shackelford S D, King D A, Wheeler T L, Rohrer G A, Bierman C D, Schneider J F, Miller R K, Zerby H, Moeller S J
Abstract excerpt
The identification of predictive DNA markers for pork quality would allow US pork producers and breeders to select genetically superior animals more quickly and efficiently for the production of consistent, high-quality meat. Genome scans have identified QTL for tenderness on SSC 2, which have been fine-mapped to the calpastatin locus. The objectives of this study were to identify the sequence variation in...
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