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Copper toxicosis in non-COMMD1 Bedlington terriers is associated with metal transport gene ABCA12.
Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS) - 1 May 2016
Haywood Susan, Boursnell Mike, Loughran Michael J, Trafford James, Isherwood Diana, Liu Xuan, Olohan Lisa, Carter Stuart D
Abstract excerpt
Wilson's disease, caused by a mutation in the ATP-ase 7B gene, is the only genetically characterised human disease with inhibition of biliary copper excretion and toxic copper accumulation in liver and occasionally brain. A similar copper toxicosis occurs in Bedlington terriers (CT) with liver damage only. Although CT has been associated with a defect in the COMMD1 gene (COMMD1 (del/del)), Bedlington terriers...
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