Microphthalmia in Texel sheep is associated with a missense mutation in the paired-like homeodomain 3 ( PITX3) gene

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Becker, Doreen ^a   Tetens, Jens ^b   Brunner, Adrian ^a   Bürstel, Daniela ^c   Ganter, Martin ^c   Kijas, James ^d   Drögemüller, Cord ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREED; CHROMOSOME 22; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PITX3 GENE; SHEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICROPHTHALMOS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952506837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008689     Document Type: Article

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