Pigs with the dominant white coat color phenotype carry a duplication of the KIT gene encoding the mast/stem cell growth factor receptor

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 822-830

  Johansson Moller, M ^a   Chaudhary, R ^a   Hellmen E ^a   Hoyheim B ^b   Chowdhary, B ^a   Andersson, L ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUS SCROFA;

PRIMER DNA; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME MAP; DOMINANT GENE; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC MARKERS; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SWINE;

EID: 0030281363     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359900244     Document Type: Article

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