A newly described bovine type 2 scurs syndrome segregates with a Frame-Shift mutation in TWIST1

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Capitan, Aurélien ^a,b   Grohs, Cécile ^a   Weiss, Bernard ^a   Rossignol, Marie Noëlle ^c   Reversé, Patrick ^d   Eggen, André ^a  

^a UMR1313 GÉNÉTIQUE ANIMALE ET BIOLOGIE INTÉGRATIVE   (France)

^b Hospitalier Necker Enfants Malades   (France)

^c Lab d'Analyses Genetiques Pour E   (France)

^d Section Charolaise   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CATTLE DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 4; EMBRYO DEATH; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROGENY; SKULL MALFORMATION; TWIST1 GENE; TYPE 2 SCURS; ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ANIMAL; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNDROME;

BOS; BOVINAE;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLIA; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HORNS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PHENOTYPE; SYNDROME; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 79960642505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022242     Document Type: Article

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