A paternally expressed qtl affecting skeletal and cardiac muscle mass in pigs maps to the igf2 locus

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe We performed QTL analyses with the revised chromosome 2 map using a statistical model2 testing for the presence of an imprinting effect as

expected for _IGF2_. There was evidence for a paternally expressed QTL located at the distal tip of 2p (Fig. 1, Table 1). The QTL had large effects on lean meat content in ham and explained

30% of the residual phenotypic variance in the F2 population. Large effects on the area of the longissimus dorsi muscle, heart weight and backfat thickness (subcutaneous fat) were also

noted, as well as a moderate effect on one meat quality trait, reflectance value. The QTL had no significant effect on abdominal fat, birth weight, or growth, or weight of liver, kidney or

spleen. The Large White allele was associated with larger muscle mass and reduced backfat thickness, consistent with the difference between this breed and the Wild Boar population. The

imprinting effect observed for all affected traits suggested a single causative locus. Clear paternal expression was illustrated by the least-squares means, which fell into two classes

following the population origin of the paternally inherited allele (Table 1). A highly significant segregation distortion (excess of Wild Boar-derived alleles) was found in the _IGF2_ region

(Table 1; χ2=11.7, d.f.=2; _P_=0.003). The deviation was observed with all three distal markers and thus was not due to typing errors. The segregation distortion did not show an imprinting

effect, as frequencies of the two reciprocal types of heterozygotes were identical (Table 1). The role of _IGF2_ in prenatal development is well documented6,7. We now demonstrate a role for

the _IGF2_ region in postnatal development as well. Our approach is particularly powerful for the detection of QTLs with parent-of-origin-specific effects, as multiple alleles (or

haplotypes) are segregating and we were able to deduce whether a heterozygous F2 animal received the Wild Boar allele from the F1 male or female. The segregation of an imprinted QTL may be

overlooked in human studies or in intercrosses between inbred rodent populations due to experimental design or statistical treatment of data. Our results have bearings on future analyses of

association between genetic polymorphism in the _insulin_-_IGF2 _ region, multifactorial traits and diseases in humans8,9, inbred rodent models and meat-producing farm animals. This is a

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