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Identification of KCNJ11 as a functional candidate gene for bovine meat tenderness.
Physiological genomics - 15 Dec 2013
Tizioto Polyana C, Gasparin Gustavo, Souza Marcela M, Mudadu Mauricio A, Coutinho Luiz L, Mourão Gerson B, Tholon Patricia, Meirelles Sarah L C, Tullio Rymer R, Rosa Antônio N, Alencar Maurício M, Medeiros Sérgio R, Siqueira Fabiane, Feijó Gelson L D, Nassu Renata T, Regitano Luciana C A
Abstract excerpt
The potassium inwardly rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 11 (KCNJ11) gene was investigated as a candidate for meat tenderness based on the effects reported on muscle for KCNJ11 gene knockout in rat models and its position in a quantitative trait locus (QTL) for meat tenderness in the bovine genome. Sequence variations in the KCNJ11 gene were described by sequencing six amplified fragments, covering almost...
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