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The RIPK2 gene: a positional candidate for tick burden supported by genetic associations in cattle and immunological response of knockout mouse.
Immunogenetics - 1 May 2012
Porto Neto Laercio R, Jonsson Nicholas N, Ingham Aaron, Bunch Rowan J, Harrison Blair E, Barendse William
Abstract excerpt
Ticks and tick-borne diseases have a detrimental impact on livestock production causing estimated losses of around $200 million per year in Australia alone. Host resistance to ticks is heritable, within-breed heritability estimates being around 0.35, and with large differences between breeds. Previously a QTL for tick burden was detected on BTA14 at ~72 Mb distal to the centromere, near the gene...
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