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The ACACA and SREBF1 genes are promising markers for pig carcass and performance traits, but not for fatty acid content in the longissimus dorsi muscle and adipose tissue.
Meat science - 1 Sept 2013
Stachowiak Monika, Nowacka-Woszuk Joanna, Szydlowski Maciej, Switonski Marek
Abstract excerpt
Among functional and positional candidate genes for pig fatness traits, there are genes encoding acetyl-CoA carboxylase alpha (ACACA) and sterol regulatory element binding transcription factor 1 (SREBF1). In our study, 5 known and 2 novel SNPs in the ACACA gene and 2 known and 6 novel polymorphisms in the SREBF1 were found. The SNPs segregated as 6 and 10 haplotypes in ACACA and SREBF1, respectively. Two SNPs in...
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