Mutations inmyostatin(GDF8) in Double-Muscled Belgian Blue and Piedmontese Cattle
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Mutations in myostatin (GDF8) in double-muscled Belgian Blue and Piedmontese cattle.
A visibly distinct muscular hypertrophy (mh), commonly known as double muscling, occurs with high frequency in the Belgian Blue and Piedmontese cattle breeds. The autosomal recessive mh locus causing double-muscling condition in these cattle maps to bovine chromosome 2 within the same interval as myostatin, a member of the TGF-beta superfamily of genes. Because targeted disruption of myostatin ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genome Research
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1088-9051,1549-5469
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7.9.910