FGF5 Allelic Heterogeneity in Long-Haired Belgian Shepherd Dogs.

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The Belgian Shepherd dog breed comprises four varieties distinguished primarily by coat type and coloration, with hair length largely controlled by allelic variation in the FGF5 gene. While five long-hair alleles (l1-l5) have been described across dog breeds, the long-haired phenotype in Belgian Shepherds has been linked to the l1 allele. In this study, sequencing of a long-haired female from a Malinois breeding...

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