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* CRA-Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia, via Salaria 31, 00016 Monterotondo, Italy
CRA-Istituto Sperimentale Lattiero Caseario, via A. Lombardo 11, 26900 Lodi, Italy
1 Corresponding author: bianca.moioli{at}isz.it
The effect of the stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) gene on milk fatty acid composition was tested. Cows of 3 breeds of northern Italy, Piedmontese, Valdostana, and Jersey, were genotyped at exon 5 of the SCD gene. This has been suggested as a primary candidate gene to change the proportion of saturated vs. unsaturated fatty acids in milk, wherein a single nucleotide polymorphism (C/T) gives rise to a different AA codon. It was possible to ascribe a reduced desaturase activity to the T allele only in the case of caproleic and myristoleic fatty acids. In contrast with the findings of SCD effects on carcass fat, it was not possible to confirm the higher desaturation activity of this single nucleotide polymorphism on long-chain fatty acids, due to the different pathways that originate milk fatty acids of different carbon length; long-chain fatty acids are highly influenced by the complex metabolic events that affect the ingested nutrients during their transfer to milk fat.
Key Words: fatty acids • breed • stearoyl-CoA desaturase
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