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A genome-screen experiment to detect quantitative trait loci affecting resistance to facial eczema disease in sheep.
Animal genetics - 1 Feb 2009
Phua S H, Dodds K G, Morris C A, Henry H M, Beattie A E, Garmonsway H G, Towers N R, Crawford A M
Abstract excerpt
Facial eczema (FE) is a secondary photosensitization disease arising from liver cirrhosis caused by the mycotoxin sporidesmin. The disease affects sheep, cattle, deer and goats, and costs the New Zealand sheep industry alone an estimated NZ$63M annually. A long-term sustainable solution to this century-old FE problem is to breed for disease-resistant animals by marker-assisted selection. As a step towards finding...
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