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Association of Calpastatin Gene Polymorphisms with Meat Tenderness in Altay Sheep from Xinjiang

TIAN Jia1, ZHOU Wei-dong2, MA Xiao-yan1, ZHENG Wen-xin2, GAO Wei-ming2, DI La-re·SHA Ta-er2, ZUO Xiao-jia2, SHI Shuai2, ZHANG Rong-yin2, LIU Wu-jun1   

  1.  (1.College of Animal Science, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052,China2.Xinjiang Breeding Sheep and Wool Cashmere Quality and Safety Supervisory and Inspection CenterUrumqi 830001,China)

  • Revised:2014-03-11 Online:2014-06-20 Published:2014-07-24

Abstract: In this study, Altay sheep was used for investigating the association between sheep tenderness and single nucleotide polymorphism markers on the calpastatin (CAST) gene. Its genetic polymorphism was detected using SSCP and DNA sequencing technology in exon 1, exon 2 and exon 21. However, only three genotypes AA, AB and BB were detected in exon 21, the sequencing result showed that the mutation of A into G, association analysis indicated that the mutation in exon 21 affected the meat tenderness markedly of Altay sheep (P<0.05). In summary, AA genotype might have certain improvement effect on meat tenderness.

Key words:

CAST gene; Altay sheep; tenderness