Identification of an allelic variant of the goat PrP gene associated with resistance to scrapie

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1395-1402

  Vaccari, Gabriele ^a   Di Bari, Michele A ^a   Morelli, Luisella ^a   Nonno, Romolo ^a   Chiappini, Barbara ^a   Antonucci, Giovanni ^a   Marcon, Stefano ^a   Esposito, Elena ^a   Fazzi, Paola ^a   Palazzini, Nadia ^a   Troiano, Pasquale ^b   Petrella, Antonio ^b   Di Guardo, Giovanni ^c   Agrimi, Umberto ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA PUGLIA E DELLA BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; LYSINE; PRION PROTEIN; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE; VALINE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GOAT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SCRAPIE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ALLELES; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GOATS; ITALY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; LYSINE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 33646121514     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81485-0     Document Type: Article

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