Linkage disequilibrium across six prion gene regions spanning 20 kbp in U.S. sheep

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1121-1129

  Green, Benedict T ^a   Heaton, Michael P ^a   Clawson, Michael L ^a   Laegreid, William W ^a  

^a U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CODON; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PROMOTER REGION; SCRAPIE; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SHEEP; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

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EID: 33751076239     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: 14321777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-006-0042-6     Document Type: Article

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