Expression variants of the lipogenic AGPAT6 gene affect diverse milk composition phenotypes in Bos taurus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Littlejohn, Mathew D ^a   Tiplady, Kathryn ^a   Lopdell, Thomas ^a   Law, Tania A ^b   Scott, Andrew ^a   Harland, Chad ^a   Sherlock, Ric ^a   Henty, Kristen ^a,b   Obolonkin, Vlad ^a   Lehnert, Klaus ^a,b   MacGibbon, Alistair ^c   Spelman, Richard J ^a   Davis, Stephen R ^a   Snell, Russell G ^b  

^a LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c FONTERRA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; MILK FAT;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AGPAT6 GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOS TAURUS; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE; INTRON; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOGENESIS; MALE; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATION; LIPIDS; LIPOGENESIS; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MILK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84908200345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085757     Document Type: Article

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