Genetic Predictions of Prion Disease Susceptibility in Carnivore Species Based on Variability of the Prion Gene Coding Region

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Stewart, Paula ^a   Campbell, Lauren ^a   Skogtvedt, Susan ^b   Griffin, Karen A ^c   Arnemo, Jon M ^d,g   Tryland, Morten ^b,e   Girling, Simon ^f   Miller, Michael W ^c   Tranulis, Michael A ^b   Goldmann, Wilfred ^a   Zabel, Mark D ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^e Center for Biosafety   (Norway)

^f ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FELINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GULO GULO; HAPLOTYPE; HOST RANGE; MARTES MARTES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRNP GENE; PUMA CONCOLOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URSUS AMERICANUS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; CANIDAE; CARNIVORA; FELIDAE; GULO GULO; MAMMALIA; MARTES MARTES; PUMA CONCOLOR; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 84870939548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050623     Document Type: Article

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