Microphthalmia in Texel Sheep Is Associated with a Missense Mutation in the Paired-Like Homeodomain 3 (PITX3) Gene

Microphthalmia in sheep is an autosomal recessive inherited congenital anomaly found within the Texel breed. It is characterized by extremely small or absent eyes and affected lambs are absolutely blind. For the first time, we use a genome-wide ovine SNP array for positional cloning of a Mendelian t...

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Autores principales: Becker, Doreen, Tetens, Jens, Brunner, Adrian, Bürstel, Daniela, Ganter, Martin, Kijas, James, Drögemüller, Cord
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20084168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008689

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20084168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008689

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