Article
Joint QTL mapping and gene expression analysis identify positional candidate genes influencing pork quality traits.
Scientific reports - 5 Jan 2017
González-Prendes Rayner, Quintanilla Raquel, Cánovas Angela, Manunza Arianna, Figueiredo Cardoso Tainã, Jordana Jordi, Noguera José Luis, Pena Ramona N, Amills Marcel
Abstract excerpt
Meat quality traits have an increasing importance in the pig industry because of their strong impact on consumer acceptance. Herewith, we have combined phenotypic and microarray expression data to map loci with potential effects on five meat quality traits recorded in the longissimus dorsi (LD) and gluteus medius (GM) muscles of 350 Duroc pigs, i.e. pH at 24 hours post-mortem (pH24), electric conductivity (CE)...
Topics
- Animals
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- Quantitative Trait, Heritable
- Red Meat
- Swine
