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Germline mutation within COL2A1 associated with lethal chondrodysplasia in a polled Holstein family.
BMC genomics - 10 Oct 2017
Reinartz Sina, Mohwinkel Hartmut, Sürie Christian, Hellige Maren, Feige Karsten, Eikelberg Deborah, Beineke Andreas, Metzger Julia, Distl Ottmar
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BACKGROUND: The bulldog calf syndrome is a lethal form of the inherited congenital chondrodysplasias. Among the progeny of the polled Holstein bull Energy P cases of lethal chondrodysplasia were observed. Pedigrees of the cases and the frequency of 3/8 cases among the offspring of Energy P at our teaching and experimental farm Ruthe (LuFG Ruthe) supported the assumption of a germline mutation with a mosaic of...
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