Release 56
(Apr 24, 2025)

Pig Trait Details: Intramuscular fat content

QTLdb Trait Hierarchy

Trait Class:Meat and Carcass
Trait Type: Fatness
Trait Name: Intramuscular fat content
Trait ID:16
Abbreviation:IMF
Custom Name:n/a
Related / Reported traits:
(Figures in parenthesis are the number of data associated with)
Intramuscular fat content (137) // Intramuscular fat 12 hr post-mortem (3) // Intramuscular fat content (181) // Intramuscular fat percentage (gluteus medius) (1) // Proportion of fat areas in image (15)
Description:n/a
Measurement:n/a
Scale/Unit:%
Comments:n/a

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Links to Formal Trait Ontology

Vertebrate Trait Ontology:[VT:0010044] Intramuscular adipose amount
Product Trait Ontology:[LPT:0000098] Intramuscular fat content
Clinical Measurement Ontology:[CMO:0000208] Intramuscular fat morphological measurement
  • The Vertebrate Trait (VT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to the morphology, physiology, or development of vertebrate organisms
  • The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO) is designed to be used to standardize morphological and physiological measurement records generated from clinical and model organism research and health programs.
  • Product Trait (PT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to products produced by or obtained from the body of an agricultural animal or bird maintained for use and profit.
REFERENCE
Park CA, Bello SM, Smith CL, Hu ZL, Munzenmaier DH, Nigam R, Smith JR, Shimoyama M, Eppig JT, Reecy JM. (2013) The Vertebrate Trait Ontology: a controlled vocabulary for the annotation of trait data across species. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2013, 4(1):13.

 

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