A cis-acting regulatory mutation causes premature hair graying and susceptibility to melanoma in the horse

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1004-1009

  Rosengren Pielberg, Gerli ^a   Golovko, Anna ^a   Sundström, Elisabeth ^b   Curik, Ino ^c   Lennartsson, Johan ^a   Seltenhammer, Monika H ^d   Druml, Thomas ^e   Binns, Matthew ^f   Fitzsimmons, Carolyn ^a   Lindgren, Gabriella ^b   Sandberg, Kaj ^b   Baumung, Roswitha ^e   Vetterlein, Monika ^g   Strömberg, Sara ^h   Grabherr, Manfred ⁱ   Wade, Claire ^i,j   Lindblad Toh, Kerstin ^a,i   Pontén, Fredrik ^h   Heldin, Carl Henrik ^a   Sölkner, Johann ^e   Andersson, Leif ^a,b   more..

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^f ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN NR4A3; SYNTAXIN; SYNTAXIN 17;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR DISCOLORATION; HORSE; INTRON; MELANOMA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAIR COLOR; HORSES; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QA-SNARE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SELECTION (GENETICS);

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 48349098128     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.185     Document Type: Article

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