Two variants in the KIT gene as candidate causative mutations for a dominant white and a white spotting phenotype in the donkey

Animal Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 321-324

  Haase, B ^a   Rieder, S ^b   Leeb, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

coat colour; depigmentation; equus; leucism; melanocyte

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS ASINUS;

RNA SPLICING; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; DOMINANT GENE; EQUIDAE; EXON; GENETICS; HAIR COLOR; INHERITANCE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; RNA SPLICING;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EQUIDAE; EXONS; GENES, DOMINANT; HAIR COLOR; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA SPLICE SITES;

EID: 84928560750     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/age.12282     Document Type: Article

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