Congenital myasthenia in Brahman calves caused by homozygosity for a CHRNE truncating mutation

Neurogenetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 87-91

  Kraner, Simone ^a   Sieb, Jörn P ^b   Thompson, Peter N ^c   Steinlein, Ortrud K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Brahman calves; CHRNE; Congenital myasthenia

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHRNE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MYASTHENIA; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOP CODON; SURVIVAL TIME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYASTHENIC SYNDROMES, CONGENITAL; PEDIGREE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0036819172     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10048-002-0134-8     Document Type: Article

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