Pork (IMAGE)

Uppsala University

Pork

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This is fat and lean pork chop. The mutation in the IGF2 gene that disrupts the interaction with the ZBED6 protein has a major effect on the relative proportion of fat and muscle in pigs.

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Photo: Ingemar Hansson.

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