Expression Levels of LCORL Are Associated with Body Size in Horses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Metzger, Julia ^a   Schrimpf, Rahel ^a   Philipp, Ute ^a   Distl, Ottmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IID;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BODY SIZE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DCAF16 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HORSE; LCORL GENE; NCAPG GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HORSES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84873918678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056497     Document Type: Article

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