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Leptin gene contributes to beef marbling standard, meat brightness, meat firmness, and beef fat standard of the Kumamoto sub-breed of Japanese Brown cattle.
Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho - 1 Jan 2000
Matsumoto Hirokazu, Kimura Satoshi, Nagai Yohsuke, Fukuda Yuta, Miyazaki Kunio, Imai Saki, Inenaga Toshiaki, Kashimura Atsushi
Abstract excerpt
The Kumamoto sub-breed of Japanese Brown cattle has unique characteristics, such as great growth rate, and their contribution as future breeding materials is expected. To develop a DNA marker for their breeding, we investigated the effects of Leptin gene, controlling energy homeostasis, on carcass traits of the Kumamoto sub-breed. Sequence comparison identified five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs): four...
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