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Congenital bovine spinal dysmyelination is caused by a missense mutation in the SPAST gene.
Neurogenetics - 1 May 2010
Thomsen Bo, Nissen Peter H, Agerholm Jørgen S, Bendixen Christian
Abstract excerpt
Bovine spinal dysmyelination (BSD) is a recessive congenital neurodegenerative disease in cattle (Bos taurus) characterized by pathological changes of the myelin sheaths in the spinal cord. The occurrence of BSD is a longstanding problem in the American Brown Swiss (ABS) breed and in several European cattle breeds upgraded with ABS. Here, we show that the disease locus on bovine chromosome 11 harbors the SPAST...
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