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Molecular basis of albinism in the rhesus monkey.
Mutation research - 3 Apr 2000
Ding B, Ryder O A, Wang X, Bai S C, Zhou S Q, Zhang Y
Abstract excerpt
Sequence analysis of the tyrosinase (TYR) coding region from one albino rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) family revealed that the two monkeys with phenotype similar to human TYR-negative oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) were homozygous for a missense mutation (S184TER) in exon 1 at codon 184. The offspring of one of the albino monkey ("Kangkang") are all heterozygous for the S184TER mutation, but the S184TER mutation...
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