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Table 6 Genetic effects of IGFBP2 on meat quality traits in the MSU Duroc × Pietrain F2 resource population

From: Association of Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 genotypes with growth, carcass and meat quality traits in pigs

Traits

Additive effect

Dominance effect

Drip loss, %

0.35 ± 0.15*

0.003 ± 0.17

24-h pH

−0.06 ± 0.02**

−0.03 ± 0.02

Tenderness

−0.18 ± 0.08*

−0.04 ± 0.09

WBS, kg

0.18 ± 0.09*

0.01 ± 0.10

Connective tissue

−0.14 ± 0.05**

0.07 ± 0.06

Overall tenderness

−0.16 ± 0.08*

−0.05 ± 0.08

  1. Significance was determined as P < 0.05 (*) and P < 0.01 (**), respectively, additive effects represent the effect of allele A
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