Frequencies of bovine PrP gene polymorphisms in Holstein and Japanese Black bulls in Japan
2006
Abe, T.(National Livestock Breeding Center, Nishigo, Fukushima (Japan)) | Hasebe, H. | Kobayashi, E.
We screened for Japanese Black and Holstein bull sire samples to detect single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) involving animo-acid substitutions in the bovine prion, gene in the entire coding region of the PRNP gene. Although three silent SNPs were found, we could not detect any SNP with animo-acid substitution. We also examined the polymorphism of the octapeptide repeat number in these samples. There was no homozygous bull with repeat number 5. The frequency of heterozygous (6/5) bulls was 8% in the Japanese Black bull and 4% in the Holstein bull, respectively. The bull samples used in this study contain popular elite sires, so it appears that the polymorphisms of prion protein (PrP) are rather difficult to find in these two breeds in Japan, except for polymorphism of the octapeptide repeat number.
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