MARQUESS FOLEY LEIGH SHAW;LAARVELD BERNARD;BUCHANAN FIONA CLEVERLY;VAN KESSEL ANDREW GERALD;SCHMUTZ SHEILA MARIE;WALDNER CHERYL;CHRISTENSEN DAVID ALBERT
发明人:
MARQUESS FOLEY LEIGH SHAW,LAARVELD BERNARD,BUCHANAN FIONA CLEVERLY,VAN KESSEL ANDREW GERALD,SCHMUTZ SHEILA MARIE,WALDNER CHERYL,CHRISTENSEN DAVID ALBERT
申请号：
US201113226217
公开号：
US2012012065(A1)
申请日:
2011.09.06
申请国别(地区):
美国
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
The present invention provides for a direct correlation between milk production in livestock animals and the presence of alleles of a gene encoding an adipocyte-specific polypeptide, termed leptin, which gene is hereinafter referred to as ob. The invention also provides novel compositions consisting essentially of specific oligonucleotides that are useful as primers to amplify particular regions of the genome during enzymatic nucleic acid amplification, thus providing a rapid, sensitive and specific method for the detection of the ob-gene polymorphism which may be present in a specimen. The invention further provides for methods of screening bovine to determine those having predictably more milk productivity and advantageously selecting those livestock for future breeding and management purposes based on the ob polymorphisms.
