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The FTO Gene Is Associated with Growth and Omega-3/-6 Ratio in Asian Seabass.
Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Oct 2018
Sun Fei, Tu Rongjian, Xia Jun Hong, Liu Xiao Jun, Yue Gen Hua
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Polymorphisms in the FTO gene are associated with obesity and body mass index in humans and livestock. Little information of whether FTO plays an important role in aquaculture fish species is available. We cloned and characterized the FTO gene in an economically important food fish species: Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer). The full-length cDNA of the gene is 3679 bp, containing an ORF of 1935 bp encoding 644...
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