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Abbreviations 6
I. Introduction 7
II. Materials and Methods 9
Ethics statement 9
Animals and meat quality traits 9
Tissue expression of the ETFA gene 11
ETFA SNP detection and genotyping 12
Statistical analysis 14
III. Results 15
Tissue expression of the ETFA gene 15
Identification of an ETFA SNP and genotyping 17
Association between EFTA nsSNP and meat quality 19
IV. Discussion 21
V. References 24
초록 27
Abstract 29
Table 1. Oligonucleotide used for genotyping and RT-PCR 13
Table 2. Genotypes and allele frequencies of non-synonymous SNP in ETFA gene. 18
Table 3. Analysis of association between ETFA nsSNP, c.569G〉A, and meat quality traits 20
Figure 1. The porcine EFTA mRNA expression was determined in various tissues by RT-... 16
Figure 2. The potential mechanism of nsSNP in procine ETFA gene. 23