10 Oct 2007
10 Oct 2007
Mapping of the SMC6 gene to porcine chromosome 3 (Brief report)
D. Boettcher1, H. H. Swalve1, and S. Maak1,*
D. Boettcher et al.
D. Boettcher1, H. H. Swalve1, and S. Maak1,*
- 1Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35, 06108 Halle, Germany
- *present address: Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals (FBN) Dummerstorf, Research Unit Muscle Biology and Growth, W.-Stahl-Allee 2, 18196 Dummerstorf, Germany
- 1Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35, 06108 Halle, Germany
- *present address: Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals (FBN) Dummerstorf, Research Unit Muscle Biology and Growth, W.-Stahl-Allee 2, 18196 Dummerstorf, Germany
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Abstract. Among the expressed sequence tags (ESTs) with different expression in M. biceps femoris of healthy and splay leg piglets there were several fragments lacking an annotation (MAAK et al., 2001). The aims of this study were (1) to identify the gene represented by one of these anonymous ESTs (GenBank accession no. AJ271018) through inter-species comparison and (2) to determine its chromosomal location in swine by radiation hybrid and in-silico mapping. Identification of the function of the gene and its mapping should clarify whether the gene can be considered a candidate for congenital splay leg.
