A genome-wide SNP-association study confirms a sequence variant (g.66493737C>T) in the equine myostatin (MSTN) gene as the most powerful predictor of optimum racing distance for Thoroughbred racehorses

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hill, Emmeline W ^a,b   McGivney, Beatrice A ^b   Gu, Jingjing ^b   Whiston, Ronan ^a   MacHugh, David E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Equinome Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MYOSTATIN; SPACER DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREED; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPORT; ANIMAL; BASE PAIRING; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CONGIOPODIDAE; EQUIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HORSES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MYOSTATIN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORTS;

EID: 77957657161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-552     Document Type: Article

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