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Heterozygote detection for maple syrup urine disease in cattle.
Australian veterinary journal - 1 Sept 1995
Healy P J, Dennis J A
Abstract excerpt
The clinical, pathological and biochemical manifestations of maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) are similar in Poll Hereford and Poll Shorthorn x Poll Hereford calves. No significant differences were observed in branched-chain amino acid concentrations in plasma, or of branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase activity in fibroblasts, between Poll Herefords homozygous normal and heterozygous for the mutation...
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