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Arachnomelia syndrome in Simmental cattle is caused by a homozygous 2-bp deletion in the molybdenum cofactor synthesis step 1 gene (MOCS1)

BACKGROUND: Arachnomelia syndrome is an autosomal recessive inherited disease in cattle. Affected calves die around birth and show malformations of the skeleton mainly affecting the legs, the spinal column and the skull. A number of arachnomelia syndrome affected Simmental calves were recently detec...

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Autores principales: Buitkamp, Johannes, Semmer, Jördis, Götz, Kay-Uwe
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21255426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-11