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Table 5 High impact novel unique Meishan variants associated with phenotypic differences related to obesity and cardiovascular disease

From: Development of a whole-exome sequencing kit to facilitate porcine biomedical research

Breed

Gene

Mutation type

Amino acid length of gene

Normal gene function

Meishan

ABCC9

c.116 delT p.Val39fs

1603

Regulatory subunit of a cardiac ATP-sensitive potassium channel

Meishan

ACOT4

p.Ser6*

464

Hydrolyze fatty acyl-CoAs into fatty acids and CoA in peroxisomes and mitochondria

Meishan

PL1 N1

p.Ser494*

578

Mobilization of fats in adipose tissue

Meishan

GRB10

p.Lys534*

548

Growth factor

  1. Fs frameshift
  2. p.#* = indicates presence of premature stop codon at a particular amino acid