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Large Deletions At The Shox Locus In The Pseudoautosomal Region Are Associated With Skeletal Atavism In Shetland Ponies, Nima Rafati, Lisa S. Andersson, Sofia Mikko, Chungang Feng, Terje Raudsepp, Jessica Pettersson, Jan Janecka, Ove Wattle, Adam Ameur, Gunilla Thyreen, John E. Eberth, John Huddleston, Maika Malig, Ernest Bailey, Evan E. Eichler, Göran Dalin, Bhanu Chowdary, Leif Andersson, Gabriella Lindgren, Carl-Johan Rubin Jul 2016

Large Deletions At The Shox Locus In The Pseudoautosomal Region Are Associated With Skeletal Atavism In Shetland Ponies, Nima Rafati, Lisa S. Andersson, Sofia Mikko, Chungang Feng, Terje Raudsepp, Jessica Pettersson, Jan Janecka, Ove Wattle, Adam Ameur, Gunilla Thyreen, John E. Eberth, John Huddleston, Maika Malig, Ernest Bailey, Evan E. Eichler, Göran Dalin, Bhanu Chowdary, Leif Andersson, Gabriella Lindgren, Carl-Johan Rubin

Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center Faculty Publications

Skeletal atavism in Shetland ponies is a heritable disorder characterized by abnormal growth of the ulna and fibula that extend the carpal and tarsal joints, respectively. This causes abnormal skeletal structure and impaired movements, and affected foals are usually killed. In order to identify the causal mutation we subjected six confirmed Swedish cases and a DNA pool consisting of 21 control individuals to whole genome resequencing. We screened for polymorphisms where the cases and the control pool were fixed for opposite alleles and observed this signature for only 25 SNPs, most of which were scattered on genome assembly unassigned scaffolds. …


Recombinant Aav-Mediated Best1 Transfer To The Retinal Pigment Epithelium: Analysis Of Serotype-Dependent Retinal Effects, Karina E. Guziewicz, Barbara Zangerl, András M. Komáromy, Simone Iwabe, Vincent A. Chiodo, Sanford L. Boye, William W. Hauswirth, William Beltran, Gustavo D. Aguirre Feb 2016

Recombinant Aav-Mediated Best1 Transfer To The Retinal Pigment Epithelium: Analysis Of Serotype-Dependent Retinal Effects, Karina E. Guziewicz, Barbara Zangerl, András M. Komáromy, Simone Iwabe, Vincent A. Chiodo, Sanford L. Boye, William W. Hauswirth, William Beltran, Gustavo D. Aguirre

Gustavo D. Aguirre, VMD, PhD

Mutations in the BEST1 gene constitute an underlying cause of juvenile macular dystrophies, a group of retinal disorders commonly referred to as bestrophinopathies and usually diagnosed in early childhood or adolescence. The disease primarily affects macular and paramacular regions of the eye leading to major declines in central vision later in life. Currently, there is no cure or surgical management for BEST1-associated disorders. The recently characterized human disease counterpart, canine multifocal retinopathy (cmr), recapitulates a full spectrum of clinical and molecular features observed in human bestrophinopathies and offers a valuable model system for development and testing of therapeutic strategies. In …