Mutations in myostatin (GDF8) in double-muscled Belgian Blue and Piedmontese cattle

Genome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 910-916

  Kambadur, Ravi ^a   Sharma, Mridula ^a   Smith, Timothy P L ^b   Bass, John J ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; MUSCLE PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CATTLE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GROWTH REGULATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0030818314     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7.9.910     Document Type: Article

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