Equine Multiple Congenital Ocular Anomalies and Silver Coat Colour Result from the Pleiotropic Effects of Mutant PMEL

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Andersson, Lisa S ^a   Wilbe, Maria ^a   Viluma, Agnese ^a   Cothran, Gus ^b   Ekesten, Björn ^a   Ewart, Susan ^c   Lindgren, Gabriella ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ARGININE; CELL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; CYTOSINE; PREMELANOSOME PROTEIN; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREED; CHROMOSOME 6; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; EYE MALFORMATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INDEL MUTATION; INTRON; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTIPLE CONGENITAL OCULAR ANOMALIES; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; EYE ABNORMALITIES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SILVER;

EID: 84884522968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075639     Document Type: Article

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