A comprehensive survey for polymorphisms in the bovine IFN-γ gene reveals a highly polymorphic intronic DNA sequence allowing improved genotyping of bovinae

Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 923-934

  Schmidt, Peter ^a   Kühn, Christa ^a   Maillard, Jean Charles ^b   Pitra, Christian ^c   Tiemann, Ute ^a   Weikard, Rosemarie ^a   Schwerin, Manfred ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; MICROSATELLITE DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; INTERFERON GAMMA GENE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CATTLE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENES; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTRONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS GRUNNIENS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0036397710     PISSN: 10799907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/10799900260286632     Document Type: Article

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