A major genetic component of BSE susceptibility

BMC Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Juling, Katrin ^a   Schwarzenbacher, Hermann ^a   Williams, John L ^b,c   Fries, Ruedi ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c PARCO TECNOLOGICO PADANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PRION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BREED DIFFERENCE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; OVIS ARIES;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; GENE DELETION; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIONS;

EID: 33750041922     PISSN: 17417007     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-4-33     Document Type: Article

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