Identification of prion protein gene polymorphisms in goats from Italian scrapie outbreaks

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1029-1033

  Acutis, Pier Luigi ^a   Bossers, A ^b   Priem, J ^b   Riina, M V ^a   Peletto, S ^a   Mazza, M ^a   Casalone, C ^a   Forloni, G ^c   Ru, G ^a   Caramelli, M ^a  

^a LIGURIA E VALLE D AOSTA   (Italy)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; LYSINE; PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GOAT; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; ITALY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE VIRUS; SHEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; ITALY; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES; SCRAPIE PRION;

EID: 33645535387     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81440-0     Document Type: Article

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