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Identification of an FBN1 mutation in bovine Marfan syndrome-like disease.
Animal genetics - 1 Feb 2012
Hirano T, Matsuhashi T, Kobayashi N, Watanabe T, Sugimoto Y
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the gene encoding fibrillin-1 (FBN1), a component of the extracellular microfibril, cause Marfan syndrome (MFS). Frequent observation of cattle with a normal withers height, but lower body weight than age-matched normal cattle, was recently reported among cattle sired by phenotypically normal Bull A, in Japanese Black cattle. These cattle also showed other characteristic features similar to the...
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