Quantum Genetics Canada Inc. is a Canadian company created in 2003, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada at Innovation Place Research Park. It is devoted to activities related to research/commercialization and the genetic variation that exists within the populations of animals in the industry. Primarily the company is focused on the identification of variant forms of genes that affect phenotypes of economic importance, i.e. YG, QG, carcass wt, etc. Further understanding of how to manipulate these genotypes to achieve more consistent end products is also at the forefront of QGCI. QGCI has developed one such understanding about how to manipulate variation in the obese gene, such that Canada/USDA grades can be optimally achieved more consistently than have been done with existing technologies.
