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Nature Genetics 38, 813–818 (1 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/ng1810

A mutation creating a potential illegitimate microRNA target site in the myostatin gene affects muscularity in sheep

Alex Clop , Fabienne Marcq , Haruko Takeda , Dimitri Pirottin , Xavier Tordoir , Bernard Bib|[eacute]| , Jacques Bouix , Florian Caiment , Jean-Michel Elsen , Francis Eychenne , Catherine Larzul , Elisabeth Laville , Fran|[ccedil]|oise Meish , Dragan Milenkovic , James Tobin , Carole Charlier & Michel Georges

Texel sheep are renowned for their exceptional meatiness. To identify the genes underlying this economically important feature, we performed a whole-genome scan in a Romanov |[times]| Texel F2 population.