Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 519-526 , June 2009

Search for Polymorphism in Exon 2 of the Equine Leptin Gene

  • N.K. Huff, PhD
    • ,
  • D.L. Thompson Jr., PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: D. L. Thompson, Jr., School of Animal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4210.
    • ,
  • K.R. Bondioli, PhD

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 Approved for publication by the Director of the Louisiana Agric. Exp. Sta. as manuscript no. 2008-230-1609. We thank T. G. Ramsay, Growth Biology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, MD, for recombinant porcine leptin.

PII: S0737-0806(09)00473-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jevs.2009.04.195

Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 519-526 , June 2009

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