Differences between male and female genotype effects were seen in five traits: taste panel assessed tenderness, weight of hindquarter, odour, sirloin weight after maturation and sirloin fat depth.
However, most of the doctors that examined the patients in this study used three degrees of assessed tenderness in the bimanual examination; light, moderate and pronounced.
At the CAPN1 gene SNP, CAPN316, the C allele was associated with reduced tenderometer values, increased hindquarter weight and an increase in taste panel assessed tenderness compared to the G allele (Table 5).
The patients were also clinically assessed for tenderness and mobility at the -osteotomy site at every post-operative visit.
Joints are usually assessed for tenderness and swelling, and joint counts are predictive of radiographic changes as well as of long-term morbidity and mortality in RA [ 4- 7].
The total tenderness score (TTS) was used to assess peri-cranial tenderness [18].
Pericranial muscle tenderness was assessed by a total tenderness score (TTS) involving 8 pairs of muscles and tendon insertions.
Longitudinal assessments were used to determine whether changes in joint counts observed over the three month period were consistent among the different assessors (correlation of changes) and to test whether patients improve their ability to assess joint swelling and tenderness (Wilcoxon-Test).
A total of 27 traits were examined, 19 relating to carcass quality, such as carcass weight and fatness, one mechanical measure of tenderness, and the remaining seven were sensory traits, such as flavour and tenderness, assessed by a taste panel.
Patients were subdivided into subgroups based on the presence/absence of cephalic cutaneous allodynia measured by a prospective clinical questionnaire [29], pericranial muscle tenderness, assessed by palpation and type of migraine pain (exploding, imploding, ocular) [19] at baseline.
