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Generation of cloned transgenic pigs rich in omega-3 fatty acids.

Lai L, Kang JX, Li R, Wang J, Witt WT, Yong HY, Hao Y, Wax DM, Murphy CN, Rieke A, Samuel M, Linville ML, Korte SW, Evans RW, Starzl TE, Prather RS, Dai Y

[1] Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA. [2] National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA. [3] These authors contributed equally to this work.

Meat products are generally low in omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids, which are beneficial to human health. We describe the generation of cloned pigs that express a humanized Caenorhabditis elegans gene, fat-1, encoding an n-3 fatty acid desaturase. The hfat-1 transgenic pigs produce high levels of n-3 fatty acids from n-6 analogs, and their tissues have a significantly reduced ratio of n-6/n-3 fatty acids (P < 0.001).

Published 7 April 2006 in Nat Biotechnol, 24(4): 435-436.
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