Evidence for multiple alleles effecting muscling and fatness at the Ovine GDF8 locus

BMC Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kijas, James W ^a   McCulloch, Russell ^a   Edwards, Janelle E Hocking ^b   Oddy, V Hutton ^c   Lee, Sang Hong ^c   Van der Werf, Julius ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BREED; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GROWTH; HAPLOTYPE; MEAT; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SHEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALLELES; ANIMALS; HAPLOTYPES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SHEEP; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 38649087938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-8-80     Document Type: Article

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