Adjacent SNPS in the transcriptional regulatory region of the FADS2 gene associated with fatty acid and growth traits in chickens

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 3329-3336

  Zhu, S K ^a   Tian, Y D ^a,b   Zhang, S ^a   Chen, Q X ^a,b   Wang, Q Y ^c   Han, R L ^a,b   Kang, X T ^a,b  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Henan Innovative Engineering Research Center of Poultry Germplasm Resource   (China)

^c XUCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chicken; FADS2; Fatty acid; Growth traits; Haplotype; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; MYRISTIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITOLEIC ACID; STEARIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE LENGTH; BROILER; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FADS2 GENE; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; HAPLOTYPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEAT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; FATTY ACIDS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MEAT; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899711687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/2014.April.29.11     Document Type: Article

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