Canine Models of Ocular Disease: Outcross Breedings Define a Dominant Disorder Present in the English Mastiff and Bull Mastiff Dog Breeds

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-30

  Kijas, J W ^a   Miller, B J ^a   Pearce Kelling, S E ^a   Aguirre, G D ^a   Acland, Gregory M ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; BLINDNESS; BREED; BREEDING; BREEDING METHOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; EYE DISEASE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DETERMINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INHERITANCE; MATING; NONHUMAN; NONSYNONYMOUS MUTATION; OUTCROSS BREEDING; OUTCROSSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE RETINAL ATROPHY; RETINA DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYNONYMOUS MUTATION;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DOGS; EYE DISEASES, HEREDITARY; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; SENSORY RHODOPSINS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0346217095     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esg007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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