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Modeling inheritance of malignant melanoma with DNA markers in Sinclair swine.
Genetics - 1 May 2007
Gomez-Raya L, Okomo-Adhiambo M, Beattie C, Osborne K, Rink A, Rauw W M
Abstract excerpt
Cutaneous malignant melanoma in Sinclair swine is a hereditary disease that develops in utero or during the first 6 weeks of life. In many cases, the tumors regress and piglets survive the disease. Two different sets of gene(s) might be involved in the disease: tumor initiator (suppressor) locus or loci and loci affecting the aggressiveness of the disease (number and stage of tumors). We develop...
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