Swaledale sheep affected by natural scrapie differ significantly in PrP genotype frequencies from healthy sheep and those selected for reduced incidence of scrapie.

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Published in J Gen Virol on June 01, 1993

Authors

N Hunter1, W Goldmann, G Benson, J D Foster, J Hope

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1: Institute for Animal Health, AFRC/MRC Neuropathogenesis Unit, Edinburgh, U.K.

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