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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2003
Applicants:
Max F. Rothschild, Ames, IA (US);
Kwan-suk Kim, Ames, IA (US);
Nguyet Thu Nguyen, Ames, IA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Ames, IA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12O 1/70 (2006.01); C12P 19/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed herein are genetic markers for animal growth, fatness, meat quality, and feed efficiency, methods for identifying such markers, and methods of screening animals to determine those more likely to produce desired growth, fatness, meat quality, and feed efficiency and preferably selecting those animals for future breeding purposes. The markers are based upon the presence or absence of certain polymorphisms in an HMGA nucleotide sequence.