Unraveling the swine genome: Implications for human health

Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 219-244

  Schook, Lawrence B ^a   Collares, Tiago V ^b   Darfour Oduro, Kwame A ^a   De, Arun Kumar ^a   Rund, Laurie A ^a   Schachtschneider, Kyle M ^a   Seixas, Fabiana K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

biomedical; disease; epigenome; models; porcine

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; SUIDAE; SUS;

ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GENOME; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENOME; SWINE;

EID: 84923195380     PISSN: 21658102     EISSN: 21658110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-animal-022114-110815     Document Type: Article

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