Prion-like Doppel gene (PRND) in the goat: Genomic structure, cDNA, and polymorphisms

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 963-971

  Uboldi, Cristina ^a   Del Vecchio, Igor ^a   Foti, Maria Gabriella ^b   Azzalin, Alberto ^a   Paulis, Marianna ^a   Raimondi, Elena ^a   Vaccari, Gabriele ^c   Agrimi, Umberto ^c   Di Guardo, Giovanni ^d   Comincini, Sergio ^a   Ferretti, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b LITA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREED; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; INTRON; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRION LIKE DOPPEL GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SPECIES COMPARISON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENOMICS; GOATS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CAPRA; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 28744449922     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: 14321777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-005-0084-1     Document Type: Article

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