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Gianfranco Cosenza1, Alfredo Pauciullo, Daniela Gallo
1Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche ed Ispezione degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Napoli , Portici, Italia.
Abstract:
The goat calcium-sensitive caseins (alphas1, beta and alphas2) represent, over many years, an excellent model for demonstrating that the major part of the variability observed in the content of these proteins in goat milk is mostly due to the presence of autosomal alleles at single structural loci (CSN1S1, CSN2 and CSN1S2 respectively) clustered on a 200 kb segment of chromosome 6; furthermore, CSN1S1 and CSN2 are convergently transcribed and are only 12 kb apart (Rijnkels, 2002).
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