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Single nucleotide polymorphism variants within tva and tvb receptor genes in Chinese chickens.
Poultry science - 1 Oct 2014
Liao C T, Chen S Y, Chen W G, Liu Y, Sun B L, Li H X, Zhang H M, Qu H, Wang J, Shu D M, Xie Q M
Abstract excerpt
Avian leukosis is an immunosuppressive neoplastic disease caused by avian leukosis viruses (ALV), which causes tremendous economic losses in the worldwide poultry industry. The susceptibility or resistance of chicken cells to subgroup A ALV and subgroup B, D, and E ALV are determined by the receptor genes tumor virus locus A (tva) and tumor virus locus B (tvb), respectively. Four genetic resistant loci (tva(r1),...
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