Genome-Wide Association Study Implicates Testis-Sperm Specific FKBP6 as a Susceptibility Locus for Impaired Acrosome Reaction in Stallions

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Raudsepp, Terje ^a   McCue, Molly E ^b   Das, Pranab J ^a   Dobson, Lauren ^a   Vishnoi, Monika ^a   Fritz, Krista L ^b   Schaefer, Robert ^b   Rendahl, Aaron K ^b   Derr, James N ^a   Love, Charles C ^a   Varner, Dickson D ^a   Chowdhary, Bhanu P ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME REACTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FK506 BINDING PROTEIN 6 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; IMPAIRED ACROSOME REACTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERM; STALLION; TESTIS; TRIM56 GENE; UPREGULATION;

ACROSOME REACTION; ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HOMOZYGOTE; HORSES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPERMATOZOA; TACROLIMUS BINDING PROTEINS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84872047005     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003139     Document Type: Article

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