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Ancestral T-box mutation is present in many, but not all, short-tailed dog breeds.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Hytönen Marjo K, Grall Anaïs, Hédan Benoît, Dréano Stéphane, Seguin Samuel J, Delattre Delphine, Thomas Anne, Galibert Francis, Paulin Lars, Lohi Hannes, Sainio Kirsi, André Catherine
Abstract excerpt
Dogs differ greatly in their morphological characteristics including various tail phenotypes. Congenitally short-tailed dogs are present in many breeds; however, the causative mutation located in the T-box transcription factor T gene (C189G) had only been described in the bobtailed Pembroke Welsh Corgis. We investigated here the presence of the T gene mutation in 23 other breeds (360 dogs, including 156 natural...
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