Title
VARIABILITY OF QUALITY OF FATTENERS CARCASS TRAITS CONNECTED WITH POLYMORPHISM IN GROWTH HORMONE GENE (GH/HAEII)
Autor
Marek Kmieć, Maria Koćwin-Podsiadła, Arkadiusz Terman, Elżbieta Krzęcio, Tomasz Grzelak
Keywords
Carcass quality, DNA polymorphism, Growth hormone, Meat quality, Pigs
Abstract
Correlation between GH/HaeII polymorphism and fattening and slaughter performances of fatteners was analyzed. Genomic DNA was extracted from the whole blood of 369 fatteners that belong to five different breed groups: Landrace, Landrace x Duroc, Landrace x Yorkshire, (Landrace x Yorkshire) x Duroc, (Landrace x Yorkshire ) x (Duroc x Pietrain). The frequency of occurrence of GH/HaeII allele polymorphism amounted to: A – 0.168 and C – 0.832, respectively. By comparison of expected abundance in GH/HaeII genotype groups with theoretical calculated abundance according to the Hardy-Weinberg law statistically significant difference were not found. Statistically significant influence on examined fattening and slaughter performances, and statistically significant interaction between breed group and GH/HaeII polymorphism for rate of growth of fatteners were shown. The GH/HaeII polymorphism itself did not differ in statistically significant way any of analyzed traits of fattening and slaughter performances within examined group of fatteners
Pages
11-20
Cite
Kmieć, M., Koćwin-Podsiadła, M., Terman, A., Krzęcio, E., Grzelak, T. (2010). VARIABILITY OF QUALITY OF FATTENERS CARCASS TRAITS CONNECTED WITH POLYMORPHISM IN GROWTH HORMONE GENE (GH/HAEII). Acta Sci. Pol. Zootechnica, 9(2), 11-20.
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