Ectopic KIT Copy Number Variation Underlies Impaired Migration of Primordial Germ Cells Associated with Gonadal Hypoplasia in Cattle (Bos taurus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Venhoranta, Heli ^a   Pausch, Hubert ^b   Wysocki, Michal ^b   Szczerbal, Izabela ^c   Hänninen, Reetta ^a   Taponen, Juhani ^a   Uimari, Pekka ^d   Flisikowski, Krzysztof ^b   Lohi, Hannes ^a   Fries, Ruedi ^b   Switonski, Marek ^c   Andersson, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; CELL MIGRATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 29; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GONAD; GONAD DYSFUNCTION; GONAD HYPOPLASIA; HOMOZYGOSITY; KIT GENE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; CELL MOVEMENT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GERM CELLS; GONADS; MELANOCYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84884614271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075659     Document Type: Article

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