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Implication of FKBP6 for male fertility in horses.
Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene - 1 Apr 2015
Schrimpf R, Metzger J, Martinsson G, Sieme H, Distl O
Abstract excerpt
In stallions, impaired acrosome reaction (IAR) may often cause subfertility. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within FK506-binding protein (FKBP6) seem to be associated with IAR in stallions. However, their effect on stallion fertility has not yet been quantified. Using whole-genome sequence data of seven stallions, we searched FKBP6 for mutations to perform an association study in Hanoverian stallions with...
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