A structural variant in the 5′-flanking region of the TWIST2 gene affects melanocyte development in belted cattle
Niveditha Awasthi Mishra, Cord Drögemüller, Vidhya Jagannathan, Rémy Bruggmann, Julia Beck, Ekkehard Schütz, Bertram Brenig, Steffi Demmel, Simon Moser, Heidi Signer-Hasler, Aldona Pieńkowska-Schelling, Claude Schelling, Ronald Rongen, Stefan Rieder, Robert N. Kelsh, , Tosso Leeb
The paper identifies a non-coding copy number variant upstream of TWIST2 that causes a pigmentation trait in belted cattle by affecting melanocyte development.
bioRxiv · Sep 23, 2016Genetics