A mutation creating a potential illegitimate microRNA target site in the myostatin gene affects muscularity in sheep

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 813-818

  Clop, Alex ^a   Marcq, Fabienne ^a   Takeda, Haruko ^a   Pirottin, Dimitri ^a   Tordoir, Xavier ^a   Bibé, Bernard ^b   Bouix, Jacques ^b   Caiment, Florian ^a   Elsen, Jean Michel ^b   Eychenne, Francis ^b   Larzul, Catherine ^b   Laville, Elisabeth ^b   Meish, Françoise ^a   Milenkovic, Dragan ^c   Tobin, James ^d   Charlier, Carole ^a   Georges, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MYOSTATIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GDF8 GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEAT; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MICE; MICRORNAS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SHEEP; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33745577150     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1810     Document Type: Article

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