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Refined candidate region specified by haplotype sharing for Escherichia coli F4ab/F4ac susceptibility alleles in pigs.
Animal genetics - 1 Feb 2010
Jacobsen M, Kracht S S, Esteso G, Cirera S, Edfors I, Archibald A L, Bendixen C, Andersson L, Fredholm M, Jørgensen C B
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Infection of the small intestine by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli F4ab/ac is a major welfare problem and financial burden for the pig industry. Natural resistance to this infection is inherited as a Mendelian recessive trait, and a polymorphism in the MUC4 gene segregating for susceptibility/resistance is presently used in a selection programme by the Danish pig breeding industry. To elucidate the genetic...
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