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Association between SNPs within candidate genes and compounds related to boar taint and reproduction
BACKGROUND: Boar taint is an unpleasant odour and flavour of the meat from some uncastrated male pigs primarily caused by elevated levels of androstenone and skatole in adipose tissue. Androstenone is produced in the same biochemical pathway as testosterone and estrogens, which represents a particul...
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723134/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19575819 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-10-32 |