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Wattles in goats are associated with the FMN1/GREM1 region on chromosome 10.
Animal genetics - 1 Jun 2015
Reber I, Keller I, Becker D, Flury C, Welle M, Drögemüller C
Abstract excerpt
The presence of congenital appendages (wattles) on the throat of goats is supposed to be under genetic control with a dominant mode of inheritance. Wattles contain a cartilaginous core covered with normal skin resembling early stages of extremities. To map the dominant caprine wattles (W) locus, we collected samples of 174 goats with wattles and 167 goats without wattles from nine different Swiss goat breeds. The...
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