Multiplicative genetic effects in scrapie disease susceptibility

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 325, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 565-570

  Dubois, Marc Antoine ^a   Sabatier, Philippe ^b   Chalvet Monfray, Karine ^b   Durand, Benoît ^c   Calavas, Didier ^c   Ducrot, Christian ^d  

^a SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

^b VETAGRO SUP   (France)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Allelic variants; Genetic susceptibility; Multiplicative effects; Prion disease; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GENE PRODUCT; PRION PROTEIN;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETICS; SHEEP;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HOST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SURVIVAL TIME;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; VARIATION (GENETICS);

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0036332896     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0691(02)01465-8     Document Type: Article

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