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A MITF mutation associated with a dominant white phenotype and bilateral deafness in German Fleckvieh cattle.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Philipp Ute, Lupp Bettina, Mömke Stefanie, Stein Veronika, Tipold Andrea, Eule Johanna Corinna, Rehage Jürgen, Distl Ottmar
Abstract excerpt
A dominantly inherited syndrome associated with hypopigmentation, heterochromia irides, colobomatous eyes and bilateral hearing loss has been ascertained in Fleckvieh cattle (German White Fleckvieh syndrome). This syndrome has been mapped to bovine chromosome (BTA) 22 using a genome-wide association study with the bovine high density single nucleotide polymorphism array. An R210I missense mutation has been...
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