Identification of allele variants of cattle milk productivity genes using PCR anti-primer method

In this work we have demonstrated two independent real-time PCR methods for detection single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of genes csn and acyl-CoA: diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (dgat) in cattle. We have analyzed 296 samples of milk production cattle of Ukrainian breeding. The genotype frequencies were AA--0.58, AB--0.34, BB--0.08 for csn gene and for dgat gene--AA--0.7, AK--0.26, KK--0.04. High efficiency of so called "anti-primer" method was shown. Duration of anti-primer PCR reaction was about 2-2.5 hours only and provided full investigation of unknown gene allele.