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Narrowing the wingless-2 mutation to a 227 kb candidate region on chicken chromosome 12.
Poultry science - 1 Jun 2018
Webb A E, Youngworth I A, Kaya M, Gitter C L, O'Hare E A, May B, Cheng H H, Delany M E
Abstract excerpt
Wingless-2 (wg-2) is an autosomal recessive mutation in chicken that results in an embryonic lethal condition. Affected individuals exhibit a multisystem syndrome characterized by absent wings, truncated legs, and craniofacial, kidney, and feather malformations. Previously, work focused on phenotype description, establishing the autosomal recessive pattern of Mendelian inheritance and placing the mutation on an...
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