OMIA 000149-9940 : Brachygnathia superior in Ovis aries |
In other species:
goat
,
pig
,
rabbit
,
cattle
,
llama
,
alpaca
Mendelian trait/disorder:
unknown
Considered a defect:
yes
Cross-species summary:
Congenital abnormal shortness of the maxilla (upper jaw), resulting in protrusion of the mandible (lower jaw).
Species-specific description:
In two papers, Luft (1972) presented evidence of an association between a whole-arm autosomal deletion and brachygnathia superior.
References
Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.
| 2008 | Kacar, C., Ozcan, K., Takci, I., Gurbulak, K., Ozen, H., Karaman, M. : | |
| Diprosopus, craniorachischisis, arthrogryposis, and other associated anomalies in a stillborn lamb. J Vet Sci 9:429-31, 2008. Pubmed reference: 19052501. | ||
| 1972 | Luft, B. : | |
| Deletion of one arm of an acrocentric autosome of two ewes and two rams with brachygnathia superior Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on Animal Reproduction and Artificial Insemination, Munich 2:1123-1127, 1972. | ||
| Luft, B. : | ||
| [Autosomal deletion in two ewes and two rams with superior brachygnathia]. Dtsch Tierarztl Wochenschr 79:327-30, 1972. Pubmed reference: 4559335. |
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- Created by Frank Nicholas on 06 Sep 2005