TY - JOUR T1 - Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of the Calpain 3 (CAPN3) Gene in Yak AU - Hu, Jiang AU - Li, Shaobin AU - Liu, Xiu AU - Luo, Yuzhu AU - Zhang, Li AU - Yan, Wei JO - Agricultural Journal VL - 8 IS - 3 SP - 119 EP - 122 PY - 2013 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-9155 DO - aj.2013.119.122 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=aj.2013.119.122 KW - Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) KW -Calpain 3 (CAPN3) gene KW -Yak (Bos grunniens) KW -PCR-SSCP KW -China AB - The Calpain3 (CAPN3) gene, located within the confidence interval of the Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) affecting meat tenderness, being regarded as a candidate gene for meat tenderness in cattle. In this study, SNPs in exon 23-intron 23 region of the yak CAPN3 was investigated from 1032 yak with Polymerase Chain Reaction-Single Strand Conformational Polymorphism (PCR-SSCP). Three Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), resulting in three novel alleles were detected in this region, respectively. These variations included one synonymous in exon 23 and two SNPs in intron 23. Allele C was the most common allele (63.18%) in all of yak. These SNPs are the first report in yak CAPN3 and also suggest further analysis is required to explore the relations between variation sites and meat tenderness. ER -