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Polymorphisms of the interleukin-15 gene and their associations with fatness and muscle fiber traits in chickens.
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Nov 2012
Lv Shi-Jie, Su Ling, Li Hong, Han Rui-Li, Sun Gui-Rong, Kang Xiang-Tao
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin-15 (IL-15) is a cytokine that has been proposed to modulate skeletal muscle and adipose tissue mass. In the present study, an F(2) resource population of Gushi chickens crossed with Anka broilers was used to investigate the genetic effects of the chicken IL-15 gene. Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (g.31224G>A and g.31266T>G) were identified in exon 5 of the IL-15 gene by means of polymerase...
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