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Effect of VNTR polymorphism of the Muc1 gene on litter size of pigs.
Molecular biology reports - 1 May 2012
Xiao Chen, Jinluan Fu, Aiguo Wang
Abstract excerpt
An investigation was undertaken to study the association between the variable number of tandem repeats polymorphism of the Muc1 gene and the litter size in pigs. Four different alleles were found in three breeds. The sequence analysis shows that the repetitive region of pig Muc1 gene is an array of 108-bp repeats. A total of 2,430 litter records from 897 sows genotyped at Muc1 gene were used to analyze the total...
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