A deletion in the bovine myostatin gene causes the double-muscled phenotype in cattle

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-74

  Grobet, Luc ^a   Martin, Luis José Royo ^b   Poncelet, Dominique ^a   Pirottin, Dimitri ^a   Brouwers, Benoit ^a   Riquet, Juliette ^a   Schoeberlein, Andreina ^a   Dunner, Susana ^b   Ḿnissier, François ^c   Massabanda, Julio ^d   Fries, Ruedi ^d   Hanset, Roger ^a   Georges, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BREEDING; CATTLE; GENE DELETION; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 16944364045     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0997-71     Document Type: Article

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