Expression of <it>PEG11 </it>and <it>PEG11AS </it>transcripts in normal and callipyge sheep
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The callipyge mutation is located within an imprinted gene cluster on ovine chromosome 18. The callipyge trait exhibits polar overdominant inheritance due to the fact that only heterozygotes inheriting a mutant paternal allele (pater...
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Language: | English |
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BMC
2004-08-01
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Series: | BMC Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/2/17 |