Article
Frequencies of PrP gene variants in healthy cattle and cattle with BSE in Scotland.
The Veterinary record - 22 Oct 1994
Hunter N, Goldmann W, Smith G, Hope J
Abstract excerpt
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is one of a family of scrapie-like diseases which affect various mammals. Polymorphisms and mutations of the PrP gene have been associated with the incidence of experimental and natural scrapie in other animals and this study of the bovine PrP gene was undertaken to discover whether there was a similar association with PrP genotype in cattle with BSE. There are two known...
Topics
- Animals
- Cattle
- DNA
- Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Mutation
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length