Novel SNP of the goat prolactin gene (PRL) associated with cashmere traits

Journal of Applied Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-54

  Lan, X Y ^a   Pan, C Y ^a   Chen, H ^a,b   Lei, C Z ^a   Li, F Y ^a   Zhang, H Y ^a   Ni, Y S ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Caprine; Fibre length; PRL gene; Prolactin; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Single strand conformation polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CAPRA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

PROLACTIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GOAT; HAIR; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEASON; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GOATS; HAIR; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROLACTIN; SEASONS;

EID: 63149155744     PISSN: 12341983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03195652     Document Type: Article

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