Proposal for the Nomenclature of Porcine (Sus scrofa) β-casein Alleles
Abstract
The present research aims to compare all known β-casein sequences in order to propose a nomenclature that will aid future research in the field. The present research is based on field literature study, on database searches and sequence alignments. The most relevant papers describing porcine β-casein polymorphisms have been consulted. The major sequence repositories investigated were: GenBank and EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute).
At the moment there are nine sequences related to porcine β-casein present in the two major databases consulted. Five of them (AF108117, AY453035, EU242520, EU025876, EU213063) are DNA sequences, three (X54974, NM_214434, GU827390) are cDNA sequences and one represents a transcript variant (HM114445).
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