Selecting animals for parentally imprinted traits

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PATENT NO 7255987
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09868732

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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.

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MELICA HBC/O LEIF ANDERSSON BERGAGATAN 30 UPPSALA S-752 39
UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE20 BD DE COLONSTER LIEGE B-4000
SEGHERSGENTEC N VKAPELBAAN 15 BUGGENHOUT B-9255

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Andersson, Leif Uppsala, SE 44 541
Georges, Michel Villers-aux-Tours, BE 15 62
Nezer, Carina Danielle A Neupre, BE 1 4
Spincemaille, Geert Zwevegem, BE 3 5

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