Article
A nonsense mutation in the <i>COL7A1</i> gene causes epidermolysis bullosa in Vorderwald cattle
2016-07-09
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> The widespread use of individual sires for artificial insemination promotes the propagation of recessive conditions. Inadvertent matings between unnoticed carriers of deleterious alleles may result in the manifestation of fatal phenotypes in their progeny. Breeding consultants and farmers reported on Vorderwald calves with a congenital skin disease. The clinical findings in affected calves wer...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 78d21497-2482-54e1-89cb-6bc2928abd08
- DOI
- 10.1101/062968
