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Investigation of the prion protein gene (PRNP) polymorphisms in Anatolian, Murrah, and crossbred water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis).
Tropical animal health and production - 1 Feb 2017
Yaman Yalçın, Karadağ Orhan, Ün Cemal
Abstract excerpt
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) of the cattle is the outstanding disease among other transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSEs). It can be transmitted from the cattle to a human and causes a new variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). It is known that prion protein coding gene (PRNP) plays a major role in the TSE susceptibility or resistance in some species. Recent researches demonstrated that...
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