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[Positional clonage and characterization of the bovine myostatin gene].
Bulletin et memoires de l'Academie royale de medecine de Belgique - 1 Jan 2000
Grobet L
Abstract excerpt
The double-muscled condition has been intensively selected for in the Belgian Blue cattle breed, where segregation studies have demonstrated the monogenic, autosomal and recessive determinism. This has been confirmed by genetic linkage which located the gene to the centromeric tip of chromosome 2. Our positional cloning strategy, and the discovery of a positional candidate in the mouse, led us to the...
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