Implications of host genetic variation on the risk and prevalence of infectious diseases transmitted through the environment

Genetics

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 683-693

  Doeschl Wilson, Andrea B ^a,b   Davidson, R ^a   Conington, J ^a   Roughsedge, T ^a   Hutchings, M R ^a   Villanueva, B ^c  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; ENVIRONMENT; FOOT ROT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79960148320     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.125625     Document Type: Article

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