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Table 4. Myostatin (MSTN) mRNA level and DNA methylation of gene exon 1 region.

	Heavy		Light			P
Item	CM	HM	CM	HM	SEM	HW	Met	HW × Met
mRNA level	1.00^ab	0.60^b	1.45^a	0.80^b	0.09	0.088	0.011	0.506
Methylation (%)	33.3^ab	29.6^ab	20.7^b	43.5^a	2.5	0.900	0.079	0.020

Heavy −48.3±0.1 g; Light −41.7±0.1 g; CM – control methionine levels (0.50% and 0.43% methionine during 1–21 d and 22–42 d, respectively); HM - high methionine levels (0.60% and 0.53% methionine during 1–21 d and 22–42 d, respectively); HW - hatching weight.

SEM - standard error of the mean.

Within the same row, different superscripts indicate significant differences (P<0.05).