Detection of Allelic and Genotypic Frequencies of Polymorphisms Associated with Meat Quality in the Mediterranean Baladi Cattle

(b):

		DGAT1					FASN
Breed	N	AA	AK	KK	A	K	GG	AG	AA	G	A
BAL	74	0.33	0.54	0.13^a	0.60	0.40^a	0.56	0.34	0.10^a	0.73	0.27^a
SIM	30	0.86	0.14	0.00^b	0.93	0.07^b	0.65	0.35	0.00^a	0.83	0.17^a
BRH	24	0.04	0.42	0.54^c	0.25	0.75^c	0.68	0.27	0.05^a	0.81	0.19^a
	X²	63.7***			33.1***		n.s			n.s

Abbreviations: BAL, Baladi; SIM, Simmental; BRH, Brahman. Genotypic frequencies within columns with different superscript letters (^a-c) are significantly different; n.s. – not significant; *P ≤0.05; **P ≤0.01; ***P≤0.0001