Association of insulin receptor substrate 1 () gene polymorphism with growth and litter-related traits in NMER rabbits.

This study investigated the associations between the c.189G > T polymorphism of the insulin receptor substrate-1 ( gene and the growth and litter size-related traits in the Native rabbit in Middle Egypt (NMER). One hundred sixty-two NMER rabbits were genotyped by RFLP-PCR using Sau3AI restriction enzyme and the associations of the reported genotypes with body weights at 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12 week old, body gain, and daily gain plus, the litter size-related traits were determined.