Table 4.

The content of individual saturated fatty acids (SFA) in sheep for the SCD1 and FASN polymorphisms.

	SCD1/Cfr13I			FASN/AciI
	AA	CA	CC	CC	CT
SCFA
C4:0	0.53 ± 0.17a	0.54 ± 0.21	0.67 ± 0.28b	0.59 ± 0.23	0.58 ± 0.29
C6:0	0.68 ± 0.19a	0.75 ± 0.17	0.85 ± 0.21b	0.78 ± 0.19	0.77 ± 0.21
C8:0	0.81 ± 0.21a	0.92 ± 0.20	1.00 ± 0.20b	0.94 ± 0.21	0.95 ± 0.18
C10:0	2.79 ± 0.86a	3.25 ± 0.71	3.45 ± 0.72b	3.25 ± 0.76	3.46 ± 0.55
Total	4.80 ± 1.38	5.47 ± 1.11	5.96 ± 1.26	5.77 ± 1.07	5.56 ± 1.24
LCFA
C12:0	1.92 ± 0.38a	2.15 ± 0.34	2.31 ± 0.40b	2.17 ± 0.40	2.29 ± 0.16
C13:0	0.03 ± 0.05a	0.06 ± 0.02b	0.05 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.03	0.07 ± 0.02
C14:0	7.22 ± 0.65a	7.74 ± 0.81	8.18 ± 0.89b	7.83 ± 0.91	8.01 ± 0.59
C15:0	1.10 ± 0.19	1.09 ± 0.19	1.12 ± 0.06	1.07 ± 0.16	1.16 ± 0.19
C16:0	21.44 ± 0.95	22.03 ± 1.15	21.81 ± 1.44	21.90 ± 1.29	21.89 ± 1.02
C17:0	1.09 ± 0.08	1.01 ± 0.11	1.01 ± 0.12	1.03 ± 0.11	0.98 ± 0.10
C18:0	12.61 ± 0.16	11.48 ± 1.41	12.33 ± 1.74	11.91 ± 1.58	11.83 ± 1.31
C20:0	0.31 ± 0.04	0.32 ± 0.04	0.33 ± 0.06	0.32 ± 0.05	0.34 ± 0.05
Total	45.70 ± 1.64	45.88 ± 2.13	47.08 ± 1.19	46.55 ± 1.33	46.27 ± 1.95
ƩSFA%	50.49 ± 2.85a	51.32 ± 2.85	53.02 ± 1.84b	51.80 ± 2.71	52.30 ± 2.27

SCFA short-chain fatty acids, LCFA long-chain fatty acids, SFA saturated fatty acids.

Mean ± SD values within the same row sharing a different superscript letter (a, b, c, etc.) are significantly different (P < 0.05).