Article
PrP genotype: a flock-level risk factor for scrapie?
Preventive veterinary medicine - 1 Dec 2009
Tongue Sue C, Pfeiffer Dirk U, Shearn P Dave, Wilesmith John W
Abstract excerpt
Previous epidemiological studies of risk factors for classical scrapie at flock level have identified a variety of management and purchase related variables, along with increased flock size and, in some cases, breed effects. Although known as a risk factor at the individual animal level, PrP genotype frequencies at flock level have not yet been studied. In an unmatched case-control study, three measures of...
Topics
- Animals
- Case-Control Studies
- Codon
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Logistic Models
- Male
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Prions
- Scrapie
- Sheep