A novel polymorphism of the porcine prolactin gene (PRL).
: Prolactin is a protein hormone playing a role in the maintenance of pregnancy in the pig by action on corpora lutea cells and possibly initiating production of progesterone. The prolactin gene is 10 kb in size and is composed of 5 exons and 4 introns. The present work is a report of the swine PRL gene--comparative DNA sequence analysi.....
