Bovine kappa-casein gene promoter haplotypes with potential implications for milk protein expression
Keating, A. F. Davoren, P. Smith, T. J. Cairns, Michael T.
Keating, A. F.
Davoren, P.
Smith, T. J.
Cairns, Michael T.
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2007-05-25
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Keating, AF,Davoren, P,Smith, TJ,Ross, RP,Cairns, MT (2007) 'Bovine kappa-casein gene promoter haplotypes with potential implications for milk protein expression'. Journal Of Dairy Science, 90 :4092-4099.
Abstract
Genetic analysis of the kappa-casein gene (CSN3) promoter regions of 42 cattle representing 9 different breeds revealed that 2 distinct haplotypes (A and B) exist at this locus, differing from each other by single base changes at positions -514 (T/G), -426 (T/C), and -384 ( T/C), where haplotype A has bases T, T, and T and haplotype B has bases G, C, and C. The AA and AB haplotypes were found to occur at a higher frequency in the animals tested, with 69.0 and 21.4% being homozygous and heterozygous, respectively. The sequences that include these polymorphisms are potentially important in transcriptional regulation of the kappa-casein gene, because they contain putative sites for binding of many transcription factors. Linkage disequilibrium between the kappa-casein promoter haplotype and either one of the 2 major kappa-casein coding sequence haplotypes was not evident. The A allele is dominant in all groups (dairy, beef, and dual purpose) with an allele frequency of 80% and is higher among high-yielding dairy animals (88.9%) than among beef animals (75%). The AB haplotype is comparatively rare in the dairy cattle (11.1%) compared with both beef and dual-purpose animals. The BB haplotype, though rare overall (9.5%), is much higher in dual-purpose animals (18.8%) than dairy (5.6%) animals. In contrast, the B allele is much more representative of the kappa-casein promoters from other ruminants.
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Elsevier ScienceDirect
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10.3168/jds.2006-687
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