Mutations in DMRT3 affect locomotion in horses and spinal circuit function in mice

Nature

Volumn 488, Issue 7413, 2012, Pages 642-646

  Andersson, Lisa S ^a   Larhammar, Martin ^b   Memic, Fatima ^b   Wootz, Hanna ^b   Schwochow, Doreen ^a   Rubin, Carl Johan ^b   Patra, Kalicharan ^b   Arnason, Thorvaldur ^c   Wellbring, Lisbeth ^a   Hjälm, Göran ^b   Imsland, Freyja ^b   Petersen, Jessica L ^d   McCue, Molly E ^d   Mickelson, James R ^d   Cothran, Gus ^e   Ahituv, Nadav ^f   Roepstorff, Lars ^a   Mikko, Sofia ^a   Vallstedt, Anna ^b   Lindgren, Gabriella ^a   Andersson, Leif ^a,b   Kullander, Klas ^b   more..

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN DMRT3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DOMESTIC SPECIES; GENE EXPRESSION; HORSE; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE; MUTATION; NEUROLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COORDINATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORSE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERNEURON; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STOP CODON; WALKING; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; GAIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; HORSES; ICELAND; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; HARNESS; MAMMALIA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865517682     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11399     Document Type: Article

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