Balancing selection of a frame-shift mutation in the MRC2 gene accounts for the outbreak of the Crooked Tail Syndrome in Belgian Blue Cattle.

We herein describe the positional identification of a 2-bp deletion in the open reading frame of the MRC2 receptor causing the recessive Crooked Tail Syndrome in cattle. The resulting frame-shift reveals a premature stop codon that causes nonsense-mediated decay of the mutant messenger RNA, and the...

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Auteurs principaux: Corinne Fasquelle, Arnaud Sartelet, Wanbo Li, Marc Dive, Nico Tamma, Charles Michaux, Tom Druet, Ivo J Huijbers, Clare M Isacke, Wouter Coppieters, Michel Georges, Carole Charlier
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Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/f6af2d7b44a64acbb646ebcadb96833f
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