Resistance to scrapie in PrP ARR/ARQ heterozygous sheep is not caused by preferential allelic use

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 647-650

  Caplazi, P A ^a   O'Rourke, K I ^b   Baszler, T V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 2642582407     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2003.012203     Document Type: Article

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