Characterization of the sheep apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene and allelic variations of the ApoE gene in scrapie Suffolk sheep

Gene

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-138

  Komatsu, Yusuke ^a   Horiuchi, Motohiro ^a   Ishiguro, Naotaka ^a   Takane Matsui, ^a   Shinagawa, Morikazu ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allelic frequency; Long and accurate PCR; Prion protein; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; EXONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032570831     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00662-8     Document Type: Article

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