Journal of Molecular Genetics
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Variants of the Diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (Dgat1) Gene in Sudanese Dairy Cattle (Kenana and Butana)
S.M. Abu Sara, A. Said Ahmed, M.K.A. Ahmed, M. Reissmann, G.A. Brockmann and S.A. Rahmatalla
Page: 5-9 | Received 21 Sep 2022, Published online: 21 Sep 2022
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Abstract
The aim of the study was the characterization of DGAT1 variants in Sudanese dairy cattle breeds. In this study, we examined 94 Kenana and 91 Butana dairy cattle from two regions of Sudan. We genotyped the DGAT1 sequence variant AJ318490.1:g.10433/10434 AA>GC that leads to the Lysine-Alanine substitution at position 232 (K232A) in the protein and the VNTR polymorphism in the promoter region. Genotyping was performed by allele specific PCR and PCR fragment lengths determination, respectively. In both breeds, the DGAT1 Lysine variant (232K) that is associated with high fat and protein content as well as high fat yield in other breeds is the high frequent allele. The frequencies of the 232K allele were 96.3 and 84.6% in Kenana and Butana breeds, respectively. At the DGAT1 promoter VNTR locus, four alleles containing four to seven repeats of the 18 bp motif were found in both breeds. The highest frequent allele was the VNTR allele 3 containing five repeats with 60.4 and 57.5% in Kenana and Butana breeds, respectively. In conclusion, the two examined Sudanese dairy cattle breeds do not differ in allele frequencies at the DGAT1 locus.
How to cite this article:
S.M. Abu Sara, A. Said Ahmed, M.K.A. Ahmed, M. Reissmann, G.A. Brockmann and S.A. Rahmatalla. Variants of the Diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (Dgat1) Gene in Sudanese Dairy Cattle (Kenana and Butana).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/jmolgene.2015.5.9
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