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Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis in Australian Merino sheep: a new animal model.
European journal of paediatric neurology : EJPN : official journal of the European Paediatric Neurology Society - 1 Jan 2001
Tammen I, Cook R W, Nicholas F W, Raadsma H W
Abstract excerpt
In 1997, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL) was identified for the first time in Merino sheep in Australia. A homozygosity mapping approach localized the disease gene in Merino sheep to the same region on chromosome 7 in which NCL was recently mapped in South Hampshire sheep. This region shows conserved synteny with the region on human chromosome 15 in which the human late infantile NCL variant CLN6 was mapped....
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