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Copy Number Variation in SOX6 Contributes to Chicken Muscle Development

Shudai Lin1, Xiran Lin2, Zihao Zhang3

  • 1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Animal Science of South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China. shudailin@stu.scau.edu.cn.

Genes
|January 18, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Copy number variations (CNVs) in chickens are linked to the SOX6 gene, impacting skeletal muscle development. Increased SOX6 expression, driven by CNVs, promotes muscle cell growth and differentiation.

Keywords:
CNVSOX6chickencopy number variationdisorder regiongrowthskeletal muscle

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