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The occurrence of dermatosparaxis in a commercial Drakensberger cattle herd in South Africa.
Journal of the South African Veterinary Association - 1 Mar 2008
Holm D E, van Wilpe E, Harper C K, Duncan N M
Abstract excerpt
Dermatosparaxis is a heritable collagen dysplasia causing skin extensibility and fragility. In Belgian Blue cattle this mutation has been described as a 3 base pair (bp) change followed by a 17bp deletion in the gene coding for procollagen 1 N-Proteinase (pNPI). An outbreak in a commercial Drakensberger herd in South Africa followed the introduction in late 2000 of a 3-year-old bull that developed skin lesions in...
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