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The dental phenotype of hairless dogs with FOXI3 haploinsufficiency.
Scientific reports - 14 Jul 2017
Kupczik Kornelius, Cagan Alexander, Brauer Silke, Fischer Martin S
Abstract excerpt
Hairless dog breeds show a form of ectodermal dysplasia characterised by a lack of hair and abnormal tooth morphology. This has been attributed to a semi-dominant 7-base-pair duplication in the first exon of the forkhead box I3 gene (FOXI3) shared by all three breeds. Here, we identified this FOXI3 variant in a historical museum sample of pedigreed hairless dog skulls by using ancient DNA extraction and present...
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