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Identification of bovine leucocyte adhesion deficiency (BLAD) carriers in Holstein and Brown Swiss AI bulls in Iran.
Genetika - 1 Dec 2005
Norouzy A, Nassiry M R, Eftekhari Shahrody F, Javadmanesh A, Mohammad Abadi M R, Sulimova G E
Abstract excerpt
BLAD is a hereditary disease in Holstein dairy cattle. The defective allele of CD18 gene which is responsible for this disease has a recessive inheritance. The recessive homozygous form (BL/BL) is lethal and since carrier animals have viability, BLAD frequency increases by use of carrier bulls in Artificial Insemination (AI). BLAD carriers can be detected easily by means of polymerase chain reaction followed by...
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