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ANIMAL PRODUCTION SCIENCE
Volume 49, Issue 7, Pages 558-562Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/EA08307
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- Meat and Livestock Australia
- Beef CRC
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An important step in the localisation of quantitative trait loci is the confirmation of trait-marker associations in independent studies. In this report, we test three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of two genes for associations to intramuscular fat (IMF) measurements in cattle. We genotyped SNP of carboxypeptidase E (CPE) and ccaat/enhancer binding protein, alpha (CEBPA) in a sample of a total of 813 cattle of taurine, composite and indicine breeds. All three polymorphisms showed significant differences between breeds, with the widest range found in CEBPA:g.271A > C where the Lambda allele frequency ranged from P = 0.07 in Brahman to 0.88 in Shorthorn. The taurine breeds showed high linkage disequilibrium between the pair of CPE SNP, with all four breeds showing r(2) = 1.0. The Brahman and Santa Gertrudis showed r(2) <= 0.17. Both CPE:g.445C > T and CPE:g.601C > T SNP showed significant allele substitution effects to IMF in animals of taurine ancestry, with an allele substitution effect of alpha = 0.22, P = 0.020 for CPE:g.445C > T, explaining 0.4% of the phenotypic variance.
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