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A nonsense mutation in the COL7A1 gene causes epidermolysis bullosa in Vorderwald cattle.
BMC genetics - 1 Dec 2016
Pausch Hubert, Ammermüller Simon, Wurmser Christine, Hamann Henning, Tetens Jens, Drögemüller Cord, Fries Ruedi
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BACKGROUND: The widespread use of individual sires for artificial insemination promotes the propagation of recessive conditions. Inadvertent matings between unnoticed carriers of deleterious alleles may result in the manifestation of fatal phenotypes in their progeny. Breeding consultants and farmers reported on Vorderwald calves with a congenital skin disease. The clinical findings in affected calves were...
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