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New ovine PrP gene haplotypes as a result of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the PrP gene promoter.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Apr 2005
O'Neill G T, Cairns D, Toovey L, Goldmann W, Hunter N
Abstract excerpt
Incidence of scrapie in sheep is strongly associated with PrP gene amino acid codon variants at positions 136, 154 and 171. However, there are breed differences in disease linkage and anomalous disease patterns which cannot obviously be explained by the '3 codon' genotype. Mouse studies indicate that PrP protein levels can influence scrapie disease progression and this prompted us to study the sheep PrP gene...
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