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. 2019 Jun 20;9(6):377. doi: 10.3390/ani9060377

Table 2.

Occurrence of β-casein gene variants in Holstein-Friesian (HF) in Poland and Red in other countries (data sorted by increasing A1 allele frequency) (adapted from Kamiński et al., 2007 [5]).

Breed Country Allele Frequency of β-Casein N References
A1 A2
HF Denmark 0.266 0.614 415 Gustavsson et al., 2014 [15]
The Netherlands 0.28 0.50 1929 Visker et al., 2010 [21]
The Netherlands 0.029 0.69 1629 Heck et al., 2009 [22]
Poland 0.32 0.68 177 Cieślińska et al., 2012 [8]
Poland 0.35 0.65 650 Oleński et al., 2012 [14]
Thailand 0.363 0.602 231 Molee et al., 2011 [23]
Italy 0.371 0.546 1226 Massella et al., 2017 [24]
Italy 0.395 0.57 100 Chessa et al., 2013 [25]
Poland 0.40 0.60 143 Kamiński et al., 2006 [16]
China 0.432 0.459 133 Dai et al., 2016 [26]
Turkey 0.485 0.456 49 Dinc et al., 2013 [27]
Iran 0.50 0.50 119 Gholami et al., 2016 [28]
Red Sweden 0.48 0.51 392 Gustavsson et al., 2014 [15]
Denmark 0.71 0.23 169 Bech and Kristiansen, 1990 [29]
Poland 0.53 0.47 201 Present data

Other variants of the β-casein gene are not included.