Study of congenital Morgagnian cataracts in Holstein calves.

Cataracts are focal to diffuse opacities of the eye lens causing impaired vision or complete blindness. For bilateral congenital cataracts in Red Holsteins a perfectly cosegregating mutation within the CPAMD8 gene (CPAMD8:g.5995966C>T) has been reported. We genotyped the CPAMD8:g.5995966C>T va...

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Main Authors: Marina Braun, Ann-Kathrin Struck, Sina Reinartz, Maike Heppelmann, Jürgen Rehage, Johanna Corinna Eule, Malgorzata Ciurkiewicz, Andreas Beineke, Julia Metzger, Ottmar Distl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226823