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Table 6 Survival of offspring by parental genotype

From: The potential for gene-editing to increase muscle growth in pigs: experiences with editing myostatin

Mating

Total litters

Total piglets

Live

Stillborn

Postnatal death (< 72 h)

MSTN + / + (live)

(% live)

MSTN ± (live)

(% live)

MSTN−/− (live)

(% live)

MSTN + / + X MSTN ± 

34

317

220 (69.4%)

57 (18.0%)

40 (12.6%)

149 (106)

(71.1%)

168 (114)

(67.9%)

NA

MSTN ± X MSTN ± 

46

362

186 (51.4%)

73 (20.2%)

103 (28.4%)

106 (69)

(65.1%)

179 (115)

(64.2%)

77 (2)

(2.6%)