A Ssp I PCR-RFLP detecting a silent allele at the goat CSN2 locus.
The goat calcium-sensitive caseins (alphas1, beta and alphas2) represent, over many years, an excellent model for demonstrating that the major part of the variability observed in the content of these proteins in goat milk is mostly due to the presence of autosomal alleles at single structural loci (CSN1S1, CSN2 and CSN1S2 respectively) clustered on a 200 kb segment of chromosome 6; furthermore, CSN1S1 and CSN2 are convergently transcribed and are only 12 kb apart (Rijnkels, 2002).
Cosenza
Gianfranco
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Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche ed Ispezione degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Napoli , Portici, Italia.
Pauciullo
Alfredo
A
Gallo
Daniela
D
Berardino
Dino Di
DD
Ramunno
Luigi
L
D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002364:Caseins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005838:Genotype; D006041:Goats / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
D002364:Caseins