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In a shake of a lamb's tail: using genomics to unravel a cause of chondrodysplasia in Texel sheep.
Animal genetics - 1 Jul 2012
Zhao X, Onteru S K, Piripi S, Thompson K G, Blair H T, Garrick D J, Rothschild M F
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Chondrodysplasia in Texel sheep is a recessively inherited disorder characterized by dwarfism and angular deformities of the forelimbs. A genome-wide association study using the Illumina OvineSNP50 BeadChip on 15 sheep diagnosed as affected and eight carriers descended from three affected rams was conducted to uncover the genetic cause. A homozygous region of 25 consecutive single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)...
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