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Relationship between Polymorphisms of Exon 1 of THRSPα Gene and the Carcass and Abdominal Fat Traits in Jinghai Yellow Chicken

XUE Qian1,2,WANG Jin-yu1,2,ZHANG Gen-xi1,2, WANG Ya-nan1,2,TANG Ying1,2,WEI Yue1,2,SHI Hui-qiang3   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China2. Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou 225009, China3. Jiangsu Jinghai Poultry Group Co., Ltd., Nantong 226103, China

  • Received:2013-12-09 Online:2014-07-20 Published:2014-08-21

Abstract: The objective of this study was to find out the SNPs of THRSPα gene and analysed their effects on the carcass and abdominal fat traits in Jinghai Yellow chicken. This experiment aimed at the exon region of THRSPα gene, using PCR-SSCP combined with sequencing technology to detect the SNPs in 379 Jinghai Yellow chickens at 140 days old. We foud that there was a 9 bp del/ins mutation in the exon 1 area of the gene. For the THRSPα gene, three genotypes(AA, AB and BB) were detected in Jinghai Yellow chicken. The frequencies of A and B alleles were 0.4485 and 0.5515, respectively. The results of the correlation analysis showed that the polymorphsim site had no significant influence(P>0.05) on the 140 day weight, carcass(including carcass weight, head weight, feet weight, wing weight, chest muscle weight, leg muscle weight, eviscerated weight, half eviscerated weight) and abdominal fat traits. Therefore,we concluded that the polymorphsim site could’t be used as a potential marker of carcass and abdominal fat traits in Jinghai Yellow chicken molecular marker-assisted breeding.

Key words:

THRSPα geneexonpolymorphismJinghai Yellow chickencarcass and abdominal fat traits