The main WAP isoform usually found in camel milk arises from the usage of an improbable intron cryptic splice site in the precursor to mRNA in which a GC-AG intron occurs

Table 1 Primers used to amplify the cDNA and gDNA target of the WAP gene

	Position	Primer	Sequence 5′- > 3′	nt^a	Amplicon sizes	Tm, ^oC
cDNA	5’-UTR	Forward	ATCTGTCACCTGCCTGCCACCTG	23	557	66
	3’-UTR	Reverse	TGAAGCTGAGTGGGTTTTTATTAGC	25		60
gDNA	intron 2	Forward	CAGCTGAGGCTGGCCCGCCTC	21	561	70
	intron 3	Reverse	GCTAGTCTGACACCCTCTCTCTA	23		62

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