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The placental growth factor (PGF)--a positional and functional candidate gene influencing calving ease and stillbirth in German dairy cattle.
Animal genetics - 1 Feb 2011
Seidenspinner T, Tetens J, Habier D, Bennewitz J, Thaller G
Abstract excerpt
The bovine placental growth factor-encoding gene (PGF) was analysed as a positional and functional candidate gene for the maternal effect on stillbirth and calving ease in first parity. Prominent levels of PGF expression have been reported for the whole human placenta and umbilical vein endotheli...
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