Article
Discovery of candidate genes for muscle traits based on GWAS supported by eQTL-analysis.
International journal of biological sciences - 1 Jan 2014
Ponsuksili Siriluck, Murani Eduard, Trakooljul Nares, Schwerin Manfred, Wimmers Klaus
Abstract excerpt
Biochemical and biophysical processes that take place in muscle under relaxed and stressed conditions depend on the abundance and activity of gene products of metabolic and structural pathways. In livestock at post-mortem, these muscle properties determine aspects of meat quality and are measurable. The conversion of muscle to meat mimics pathological processes associated with muscle ischemia, injury or damage in...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosomes
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Meat
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- Swine
