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Prairie Swine Centre is an affiliate of the University of Saskatchewan
Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.
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Kisspeptins receptor (KISS1R), also called GPR54, is a key regulator of
puberty in many species. KISS1R and its genetics in pigs remain unexplored.
The objective of this study was to characterize the porcine
KISS1R gene and evaluate the association of KISS1R mutations with age
at puberty in sows. It was found that no significant association of KISS1R haplotypes
and haplotype pairs with age at puberty was observed in the resource
population, indicating that mutations in KISS1R are not responsible for
divergent age at puberty in White Duroc and Erhualian pigs.
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