Association of selected SNP with carcass and taste panel assessed meat quality traits in a commercial population of Aberdeen Angus-sired beef cattle

Table 3 SNP name and location

Gene	BTA	SNP name	Location	GenBank Accession number and base position	SNP
CAPN1 ¹	29	CAPN316	Exon 9	AF252504-5709	G/C
		CAPN 4751	Intron 17 between exon 17 and 18	AF248054-6545	C/T
CAST ²	7	UoGCAST	Intron 5 between exon 5 and 6	AY008267-282	G/C
LEP ³	4	UASMS1	Leptin promoter region	AB070368-207	C/T
		UASMS2	Leptin promoter region	AB070368-528	C/T
		Exon2FB	Exon 2	AY138588-305	C/T
GHR ⁴	20	F279Y	Exon 8	AY748827-914	A/T
DGAT1 ⁵	14	K232A	Exon 8	AY065621-6829 AY065621-6830	A/G A/C

¹ Calpain was mapped by Smith et al., (2000) [32], CAPN316 SNP reported by Page et al., (2002) [35] and CAPN4751 SNP reported by White et al., (2005) [13]
² Calpastatin was mapped by Bishop et al., (1993) [36] and the SNP was reported by Schenkel et al., (2006) [11]
³ Leptin was mapped by Stone et al., (1996) [37], UASMS1 and UASMS2 SNP reported by Nkrumah et al., (2005) [9], Exon2FB SNP reported by Buchanan et al., (2002) [5]
⁴ Growth hormone receptor was mapped by Moody et al., (1995) [43], SNP reported by Blott et al., (2003) [42]
⁵ acylCoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 was mapped by Cases et al., (1998) [39], dinucleotide substitution reported by Grisart et al., (2002) [40]

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