Novel polymorphism of the bovine fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene are related to backfat thickness and longissimus muscle area in five Chinese native cattle breeds

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2820-2824

  Wei, Shengjuan ^a   Zan, Linsen ^a,b   Ujan, Javed Ahmed ^a   Wang, Hongbao ^a   Yang, Yanjie ^c   Adoligbe, Camus ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Beef Cattle Improvement Centre   (China)

^c HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cattle; Fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene; Meat quality traits; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FTO GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; LONGISSIMUS MUSCLE; MEAT; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 80053931340     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/ajb10.2192     Document Type: Article

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