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SUBMITTER: Frischknecht M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3603880 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frischknecht Mirjam M Niehof-Oellers Helena H Jagannathan Vidhya V Owczarek-Lipska Marta M Drögemüller Cord C Dietschi Elisabeth E Dolf Gaudenz G Tellhelm Bernd B Lang Johann J Tiira Katriina K Lohi Hannes H Leeb Tosso T
PloS one 20130320 3
We describe a mild form of disproportionate dwarfism in Labrador Retrievers, which is not associated with any obvious health problems such as secondary arthrosis. We designate this phenotype as skeletal dysplasia 2 (SD2). It is inherited as a monogenic autosomal recessive trait with incomplete penetrance primarily in working lines of the Labrador Retriever breed. Using 23 cases and 37 controls we mapped the causative mutation by genome-wide association and homozygosity mapping to a 4.44 Mb inter ...[more]