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Tissue- and breed-specific expression of the chicken fat mass- and obesity-associated gene (FTO)

C. Song, Song, W. T., Shu, J. T., Tao, Z. Y., Zhu, W. Q., Di, C., and Li, H. F., Tissue- and breed-specific expression of the chicken fat mass- and obesity-associated gene (FTO), vol. 14, pp. 10500-10506, 2015.

The fat mass- and obesity-associated gene (FTO) is involved in energy metabolism, but little is known about the chicken FTO gene. The objective of the current study was to detect chicken FTO expression patterns in the hypothalamus, liver, and skeletal muscle during development, and analyze the effects of age and breed on FTO expression. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction results revealed that chicken FTO mRNA was expressed in all of the tissues tested.

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