A nonsense mutation in the FMO3 gene underlies fishy off-flavor in cow's milk

Genome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1885-1888

  Lundén, Anne ^a   Marklund, Stefan ^a   Gustafsson, Victoria ^a   Andersson, Leif ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLANILINE MONOOXYGENASE; TRIMETHYLAMINE;

BODY FLUID; CATTLE FARMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; MILK; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ODOR; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TRIMETHYLAMINURIA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ARGININE; CATTLE; CODON, NONSENSE; EXONS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; METHYLAMINES; MILK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGENASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TASTE;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0036916268     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.240202     Document Type: Review

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