Journal
ANIMAL GENETICS
Volume 45, Issue 4, Pages 508-516Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/age.12155
Keywords
cross-bred pigs; custom 96 single-nucleotide polymorphisms panel; meat quality and carcass traits; multimarker analysis
Funding
- Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [235374]
- Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency
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This study aimed to evaluate the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in candidate genes for meat quality using a custom 96-SNP panel (Illumina Vera Code GoldenGate Assay) on 15 traits collected from 400 commercial pigs. Meat quality measurements included muscle pH, color (L*, a* and b*), drip loss, cooking loss, peak shear force and six sensory traits including appearance (outside and inside), tenderness, juiciness, flavor and overall liking as well as carcass weight and probe yield. Thirty-five SNPs with minor allele frequencies > 0.10 remained for the multimarker association using the GLM procedure of SAS 9.2. Results showed that 20 SNPs were significantly associated with at least one of the traits with either additive or dominance or both effects (P < 0.05). Among these significant SNPs, five of them in ADIPOQ, FTO, TNF, LEPR and AMPD1 had an effect on more than three traits simultaneously; those in MC4R, CAST, DGAT1 and MYF6 had an effect on two traits, while the others were associated with one trait. The results suggest that these markers could be incorporated into commercial pigs for marker-assisted selection and breeding programs for carcass and meat quality trait improvement.
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