A MITF mutation associated with a dominant white phenotype and bilateral deafness in German Fleckvieh cattle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Philipp, Ute ^a   Lupp, Bettina ^a   Mömke, Stefanie ^a   Stein, Veronika ^a   Tipold, Andrea ^a   Eule, Johanna Corinna ^b   Rehage, Jürgen ^a   Distl, Ottmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME MAP; COLOBOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GERMAN WHITE FLECKVIEH SYNDROME; HEARING LOSS; HETEROCHROMIA IRIDES; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IRIS DISEASE; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MITF GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAX3 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOX10 GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DOMINANT GENE; EXON; EYE FUNDUS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; GERMANY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PIGMENTATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEAFNESS; EXONS; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; GERMANY; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION;

EID: 83155167602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028857     Document Type: Article

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