A missense variant of the porcine melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) gene is associated with fatness, growth, and feed intake traits

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-135

  Kim, Kwan Suk ^a   Larsen, Niels ^a,d   Short, Tom ^b   Plastow, Graham ^c   Rothschild, Max F ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GENUS PLC   (United States)

^c Fyfield Wick   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RECEPTOR GENE; SWINE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SWINE;

EID: 0033958732     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003350010025     Document Type: Article

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