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Identification of a 6 base pair insertion in West Highland White Terriers with erythrocyte pyruvate kinase deficiency.
American journal of veterinary research - 1 Sept 1999
Skelly B J, Wallace M, Rajpurohit Y R, Wang P, Giger U
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To define the disease-causing mutation in West Highland White Terriers (WHWT) with erythrocyte pyruvate kinase (R-PK) deficiency and to design a genetic test capable of recognizing affected (homozygous) and carrier (heterozygous) dogs. ANIMALS: 3 anemic WHWT littermates and 1 unaffected littermate; 16 dogs from the same kennel, including 4 unrelated, phenotypically normal dogs (control dogs), and 12...
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