Two candidate genes (FTO and INSIG2) for fat accumulation in four canids: Chromosome mapping, gene polymorphisms and association studies of body and skin weight of red foxes

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-32

  Grzes, M ^a   Szczerbal, I ^a   Fijak Nowak, H ^a   Szydlowski, M ^a   Switonski, M ^a  

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arctic fox; Body weight; Chinese raccoon dog; Dog; Fat tissue; FTO; INSIG2; Obesity; Red fox

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOX; FTO GENE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INSIG2 GENE; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CANIDAE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; FOXES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; RACCOON DOGS; SKIN;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; NYCTEREUTES PROCYONOIDES; VULPES;

EID: 80052703333     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 14219794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330457     Document Type: Article

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