A frameshift mutation in MC1R and a high frequency of somatic reversions cause black spotting in pigs

Genetics

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 779-785

  Kijas, J M H ^a,c   Moller, M ^a   Plastow, G ^b   Andersson, L ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b PIC Group   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN MC1R; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERTANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SWINE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, RECESSIVE; HOMOZYGOTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0034971184     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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