Effect of polymorphisms in the genes for LIF and RBP4 on litter size in two German pig lines.

The association of two diallelic polymorphisms in the porcine genes for leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and retinol-binding protein 4 (RBP4) with number of piglets born alive (NBA) in two German pig lines was studied. The investigated single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the porcine LIF gene has been located in the 3'-untranslated region of its third exon, whereas the SNP in the RBP4 gene genotyped in this study is intronic. At the LIF locus the allele frequencies were 0.613 for the A allele and 0.387 for the B allele in German Landrace (GL) and 0.276 for A and 0.724 for B in German Large White (GW). At the RBP4 locus, the allele frequencies were 0.586 for the A allele and 0.414 for the B allele in GL and 0.733 for A and 0.267 for B in GW. There was a significant additive effect of the LIF B allele on NBA in GW over all parities (p <or= 0.05) and a significant positive dominance effect of 0.69 +/- 0.22 (p = 0.002) was observed for first parity on NBA in GL. For RBP4, no association of genotypes and NBA was detected in GW but a significant additive effect of the A allele of 0.24 +/- 0.11 (p = 0.027) and a significant dominance effect of 0.31 +/- 0.13 (p = 0.020) were found in GL over all parities and confirmed through the evaluations by parity.

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