A structural variant in the 5'-flanking region of the TWIST2 gene affects melanocyte development in belted cattle.

A structural variant in the 5'-flanking region of the TWIST2 gene affects melanocyte development in belted cattle.

Belted cattle have a circular belt of unpigmented hair and skin around their midsection. The belt is inherited as a monogenic autosomal dominant trait. We mapped the causative variant to a 37 kb segment on bovine chromosome 3. Whole genome sequence data of 2 belted and 130 control cattle yielded onl...

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Main Authors: Nivedita Awasthi Mishra, Cord Drögemüller, Vidhya Jagannathan, Irene Keller, Daniel Wüthrich, Rémy Bruggmann, Julia Beck, Ekkehard Schütz, Bertram Brenig, Steffi Demmel, Simon Moser, Heidi Signer-Hasler, Aldona Pieńkowska-Schelling, Claude Schelling, Marcos Sande, Ronald Rongen, Stefan Rieder, Robert N Kelsh, Nadia Mercader, Tosso Leeb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5489250?pdf=render

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