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Epistasis between calpain 1 and its inhibitor calpastatin within breeds of cattle.
Genetics - 1 Aug 2007
Barendse W, Harrison B E, Hawken R J, Ferguson D M, Thompson J M, Thomas M B, Bunch R J
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The calpain gene family and its inhibitors have diverse effects, many related to protein turnover, which appear to affect a range of phenotypes such as diabetes, exercise-induced muscle injury, and pathological events associated with degenerative neural diseases in humans, fertility, longevity, and postmortem effects on meat tenderness in livestock species. The calpains are inhibited by calpastatin, which binds...
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