Polymorphism of the ovine FOXP3 gene (FOXP3)

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 140, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 303-306

  Yang, Guo ^a   Zhou, Huitong ^a   Hickford, Jon G H ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

FOXP3; PCR SSCP; Sheep; Variation

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EWE; EXON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMIZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROLINE RICH PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAM (SHEEP); SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; INTRONS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHEEP;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79952186482     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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