Article
Genome-wide scan identifies loci associated with classical BSE occurrence.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Murdoch Brenda M, Murdoch Gordon K, Settles Matthew, McKay Stephanie, Williams John L, Moore Stephen S
Abstract excerpt
Classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is an acquired prion disease that is invariably fatal in cattle and has been implicated as a significant human health risk. Sequence variations in the coding region of the prion gene (PRNP) have been associated with acquired transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) susceptibility in mammals; however, this is not the case in cattle. It has been hypothesized...
Topics
- Animals
- Cattle
- Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quality Control
