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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1999
Leif Andersson, Uppsala, SE;
Michel Georges, Villers-aux-Tours, BE;
Geert Spincemaille, Zwevegem, BE;
Carina Danielle A. Nezer, Neupre, BE;
Leif Andersson, Uppsala, SE;
Michel Georges, Villers-aux-Tours, BE;
Geert Spincemaille, Zwevegem, BE;
Carina Danielle A. Nezer, Neupre, BE;
Abstract
The invention relates to methods to select breeding animals or animals destined for slaughter for having desired genotypic or potential phenotypic properties, in particular related to muscle mass and/or fat deposition. The invention provides a method for selecting a pig for having desired genotypic or potential phenotypic properties comprising testing a sample from said pig for the presence of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) located at a Sus scrofa chromosome 2 mapping at position 2p1.7.