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A new single nucleotide polymorphism in the ryanodine gene of chicken skeletal muscle.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 3 Apr 2012
Droval A A, Binneck E, Marin S R R, Paião F G, Oba A, Nepomuceno A L, Shimokomaki M
Abstract excerpt
Some genes affect meat quality in chickens. We looked for polymorphisms in the Gallus gallus α-RyR gene (homologous to RyR 1) that could be associated with PSE (pale, soft and exudative) meat. Because RyR genes are over 100,000 bp long and code for proteins with about 5000 amino acids, primers were designed to amplify a fragment of hotspot region 2, a region with a high density of mutations in other species....
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