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Design and validation of a high-throughput assay to detect codon 146 polymorphisms in the caprine prion protein gene.
Analytical biochemistry - 15 Oct 2009
Arrizubieta María J, Kanata Eirini, Keklikoglou Ioanna, Papasavva-Stylianou Penelope, Toumazos Pavlos, Panagiotidis Cynthia H, Sklaviadis Theodoros
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In sheep, scrapie susceptibility is so strongly associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene encoding the prion protein (PrP) that this linkage constitutes the basis for selective breeding strategies directed toward controlling the disease. For goats, in contrast, the association between scrapie susceptibility/resistance and variations in the PrP gene is far weaker, with only a few...
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