Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the most costly feedlot disease in the United States.
Selection for disease resistance is one of several possible interventions to prevent or reduce …

The EU Commission issued a regulation in 2003, which requires all member states to
implement a breeding programme for resistance to transmissible spongiform …

The detection method based on the mathematical expectation (ME) strategy is fast and
accuracy for low frequency mutation screening in large samples. Previous studies have …

The Dutch scrapie eradication programme aims at the exclusive use of homozygous
ARR/ARR breeding rams by the end of 2004. As a consequence, breeds with a small …

The objective of this study was to analyze associations between ovine prion protein
genotypes and production traits in East Friesian milk sheep. Production traits included the …

In this study, the potential association of PrP genotypes with ewe reproductive traits and
lamb growth traits was investigated. Data were included on ewes and lambs of the INRA 401 …

Polymorphisms at the prion protein locus were studied in 965 animals, representative of 13
native and 3 exotic sheep breeds in Portugal. In general, ARQ was the predominant allele in …

It is well known that scrapie is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease in sheep and goat, which
belongs to the group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion …

The objective of this study was to analyze the association between the haplotypes of the
prion protein (PrP) locus and several reproductive and lamb weight traits in Ripollesa sheep …

The aim of this study was to identify the prion protein (PrP) gene polymorphism in a total of
1,110 healthy sheep from 18 Turkish native sheep breeds. There were nine alleles and 22 …