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C. He, Wang, C., Chang, Z. H., Guo, B. L., Li, R., Yue, X. P., Lan, X. Y., Chen, H., and Lei, C. Z., AGPAT6 polymorphism and its association with milk traits of dairy goats, vol. 10, pp. 2747-2756, 2011.
Agarwal AK, Barnes RI and Garg A (2006). Functional characterization of human 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase isoform 8: cloning, tissue distribution, gene structure, and enzymatic activity. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 449: 64-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2006.03.014 PMid:16620771 Agarwal AK, Sukumaran S, Bartz R, Barnes RI, et al. (2007). Functional characterization of human 1-acylglycerol- 3-phosphate-O-acyltransferase isoform 9: cloning, tissue distribution, gene structure, and enzymatic activity. J. Endocrinol. 193: 445-457. http://dx.doi.org/10.1677/JOE-07-0027 PMid:17535882 Aguado B and Campbell RD (1998). Characterization of a human lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase that is encoded by a gene located in the class III region of the human major histocompatibility complex. J. Biol. Chem. 273: 4096-4105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.273.7.4096 PMid:9461603 Beigneux AP, Vergnes L, Qiao X, Quatela S, et al. (2006). Agpat6 - a novel lipid biosynthetic gene required for triacylglycerol production in mammary epithelium. J. Lipid Res. 47: 734-744. http://dx.doi.org/10.1194/jlr.M500556-JLR200 PMid:16449762    PMCid:3196597 Bionaz M and Loor JJ (2008). ACSL1, AGPAT6, FABP3, LPIN1, and SLC27A6 are the most abundant isoforms in bovine mammary tissue and their expression is affected by stage of lactation. J. Nutr. 138: 1019-1024. PMid:18492828 Chen YQ, Kuo MS, Li S, Bui HH, et al. (2008). AGPAT6 is a novel microsomal glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase. J. Biol. Chem. 283: 10048-10057. http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M708151200 PMid:18238778    PMCid:2442282 Coleman RA and Lee DP (2004). Enzymes of triacylglycerol synthesis and their regulation. Prog. Lipid Res. 43: 134-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0163-7827(03)00051-1 Kimchi-Sarfaty C, Oh JM, Kim IW, Sauna ZE, et al. (2007). A “silent” polymorphism in the MDR1 gene changes substrate specificity. Science 315: 525-528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1135308 PMid:17185560 Komar AA (2007). Silent SNPs: impact on gene function and phenotype. Pharmacogenomics. 8: 1075-1080. http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/14622416.8.8.1075 PMid:17716239 Lan XY, Pan CY, Chen H and Zhang CL (2007). An AluI PCR-RFLP detecting a silent allele at the goat POU1F1 locus and its association with production traits. Small Rumin. Res. 73: 8-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smallrumres.2006.10.009 Nagle CA, Vergnes L, Dejong H, Wang S, et al. (2008). Identification of a novel sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase isoform, GPAT4, as the enzyme deficient in Agpat6-/- mice. J. Lipid Res. 49: 823-831. http://dx.doi.org/10.1194/jlr.M700592-JLR200 PMid:18192653    PMCid:2819352 Nei M and Roychoudhury AK (1974). Sampling variances of heterozygosity and genetic distance. Genetics 76: 379-390. PMid:4822472    PMCid:1213072 Sambrook J and Russell DW (2001). Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. 3rd edn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York. Sham P, Bader JS, Craig I, O’Donovan M, et al. (2002). DNA Pooling: a tool for large-scale association studies. Nat. Rev. Genet. 3: 862-871. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg930 PMid:12415316 Sukumaran S, Barnes RI, Garg A and Agarwal AK (2009). Functional characterization of the human 1-acylglycerol- 3-phosphate-O-acyltransferase isoform 10/glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase isoform 3. J. Mol. Endocrinol. 42: 469-478. http://dx.doi.org/10.1677/JME-09-0010 PMid:19318427 Takeuchi K and Reue K (2009). Biochemistry, physiology, and genetics of GPAT, AGPAT, and lipin enzymes in triglyceride synthesis. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 296: E1195-E1209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.90958.2008 PMid:19336658    PMCid:2692402 Vergnes L, Beigneux AP, Davis R, Watkins SM, et al. (2006). Agpat6 deficiency causes subdermal lipodystrophy and resistance to obesity. J. Lipid Res. 47: 745-754. http://dx.doi.org/10.1194/jlr.M500553-JLR200 PMid:16436371    PMCid:2901549 Ye GM, Chen C, Huang S, Han DD, et al. (2005). Cloning and characterization a novel human 1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3- phosphate acyltransferase gene AGPAT7. DNA Seq. 16: 386-390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10425170500213712 PMid:16243729
Y. H. Pang, Lei, C. Z., Zhang, C. L., Lan, X. Y., Shao, S., Gao, X. M., Wang, J. Q., and Chen, H., Lack of association of single nucleotide polymorphisms of the bovine Flt-1 gene with growth traits in Chinese cattle breeds, vol. 10, pp. 359-367, 2011.
Alitalo K, Tammela T and Petrova TV (2005). Lymphangiogenesis in development and human disease. Nature 438: 946- 953. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature04480 PMid:16355212   Autiero M, Luttun A, Tjwa M and Carmeliet P (2003). Placental growth factor and its receptor, vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1: novel targets for stimulation of ischemic tissue revascularization and inhibition of angiogenic and inflammatory disorders. J. Thromb. Haemost. 1: 1356-1370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1538-7836.2003.00263.x PMid:12871269   Cao H, Urban JF Jr and Anderson RA (2008). Insulin increases tristetraprolin and decreases VEGF gene expression in mouse 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Obesity 16: 1208-1218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/oby.2008.65 PMid:18388887   De Vries C, Escobedo JA, Ueno H, Houck K, et al. (1992). The fms-like tyrosine kinase, a receptor for vascular endothelial growth factor. Science 255: 989-991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1312256 PMid:1312256   Ferrara N (2004). Vascular endothelial growth factor: basic science and clinical progress. Endocrinol. Rev. 25: 581-611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/er.2003-0027 PMid:15294883   Ferrara N, Gerber HP and LeCouter J (2003). The biology of VEGF and its receptors. Nat. Med. 9: 669-676. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm0603-669 PMid:12778165   Giantonio BJ, Catalano PJ, Meropol NJ, O'Dwyer PJ, et al. (2007). Bevacizumab in combination with oxaliplatin, fluorouracil, and leucovorin (FOLFOX4) for previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer: results from the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Study E3200. J. Clin. Oncol. 25: 1539-1544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2006.09.6305 PMid:17442997   MacNeil MD and Grosz MD (2002). Genome-wide scans for QTL affecting carcass traits in Hereford x composite double backcross populations. J. Anim. Sci. 80: 2316-2324. PMid:12350008   Pang Y, Lei C, Zhang C, Lan X, et al. (2010). The polymorphisms of bovine VEGF gene and their associations with growth traits in Chinese cattle. Mol. Biol. Rep. DOI: 10.1007/s11033-010-0163-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11033-010-0163-6   Peng H, Usas A, Olshanski A, Ho AM, et al. (2005). VEGF improves, whereas sFlt1 inhibits, BMP2-induced bone formation and bone healing through modulation of angiogenesis. J. Bone Miner. Res. 20: 2017-2027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1359/JBMR.050708 PMid:16234975   Quinn TP, Peters KG, de Vries C, Ferrara N, et al. (1993). Fetal liver kinase 1 is a receptor for vascular endothelial growth factor and is selectively expressed in vascular endothelium. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 90: 7533-7537. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.90.16.7533 PMid:8356051 PMCid:47176   Sambrook J and Russell DW (2001). Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York.   Tang K, Breen EC, Gerber HP, Ferrara NM, et al. (2004). Capillary regression in vascular endothelial growth factor-deficient skeletal muscle. Physiol. Genomics 18: 63-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/physiolgenomics.00023.2004 PMid:15084712   Tebbe CC, Schmalenberger A, Peters S and Schwieger F (2001). Single Strand Conformation Polymorphism (SSCP) for Microbial Community Analysis. In: Environmental Molecular Microbiology: Protocols and Applications (Rochelle PA, ed.). Horizon Scientific Press, Wymondham, 161-175.   Yang D, Chen H, Wang X, Tian Z, et al. (2007). Association of polymorphisms of leptin gene with body weight and body sizes indexes in Chinese indigenous cattle. J. Genet. Genomics 34: 400-405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1673-8527(07)60043-5   Yang JC, Haworth L, Sherry RM, Hwu P, et al. (2003). A randomized trial of bevacizumab, an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor antibody, for metastatic renal cancer. N. Engl. J. Med. 349: 427-434. http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa021491 PMid:12890841 PMCid:2275324   Zhang C, Chen H, Zhang L, Zhao M, et al. (2008). Association of polymorphisms of the GHRHR gene with growth traits in cattle. Arch. Tierz. 51: 300-301.   Zhang Q, Chen H, Zhao S, Zhang L, et al. (2009). Single nucleotide polymorphisms and haplotypic diversity in the bovine PRKAB1 gene. Mol. Biotechnol. 43: 193-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12033-009-9194-4 PMid:19578998
C. Y. Pan, Lan, X. Y., Zhao, H. Y., Hu, S. R., Huai, Y. T., Lei, C. Z., and Chen, H., A novel genetic variant of the goat Six6 gene and its association with production traits in Chinese goat breeds, vol. 10, pp. 3888-3900, 2011.
Betty P, Nathalie I and Jean B (2004). Efficient screening for expressed sequence tag polymorphisms (ESTPs) by DNA pool sequencing and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) in spruces. Mol. Breed. 13: 263-279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:MOLB.0000022528.01656.c8   Bhattacharya TK, Chatterjee RN, Sharma RP, Niranjan M, et al. (2011). Associations between novel polymorphisms at the 5'-UTR region of the prolactin gene and egg production and quality in chickens. Theriogenology 75: 655-661. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2010.10.005 PMid:21111467   Cheyette BN, Green PJ, Martin K, Garren H, et al. (1994). The Drosophila sine oculis locus encodes a homeodomain-containing protein required for the development of the entire visual system. Neuron 12: 977-996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0896-6273(94)90308-5   Conte I, Morcillo J and Bovolenta P (2005). Comparative analysis of Six 3 and Six 6 distribution in the developing and adult mouse brain. Dev. Dyn. 234: 718-725. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.20463 PMid:15973738   Diaczok D, Romero C, Zunich J, Marshall I, et al. (2008). A novel dominant negative mutation of OTX2 associated with combined pituitary hormone deficiency. J. Clin. Endocr. Metab. 93: 4351-4359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jc.2008-1189 PMid:18728160 PMCid:2582563   Eller A, Branch DW, Nelson L and Silver R (2008). 247: The -634GC polymorphism in the regulatory 5ꞌ untranslated region (5' UTR) of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene is associated with unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 199 (Suppl 1): S81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2008.09.275   Greenwood TA and Kelsoe JR (2003). Promoter and intronic variants affect the transcriptional regulation of the human dopamine transporter gene. Genomics 82: 511-520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0888-7543(03)00142-3   Gupta N, Ahlawat SPS, Kumar D, Gupta SC, et al. (2007). Single nucleotide polymorphism in growth hormone gene exon-4 and exon-5 using PCR-SSCP in Black Bengal goats - a prolific meat breed of India. Meat Sci. 76: 658-665. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2007.02.005 PMid:22061242   Hu S, Mamedova A and Hegde RS (2008). DNA-binding and regulation mechanisms of the SIX family of retinal determination proteins. Biochemistry 47: 3586-3594. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi702186s PMid:18293925   Huai YT, Lan XY, Ma L, Wang J, et al. (2011). Novel mutation in TGA stop-codon of bovine SIX6 gene. Mol. Biol. 45: 218-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S0026893310061093   Jean D, Bernier G and Gruss P (1999). Six6 (Optx2) is a novel murine Six3-related homeobox gene that demarcates the presumptive pituitary/hypothalamic axis and the ventral optic stalk. Mech. Dev. 84: 31-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00068-4   Kim DJ, Park BL, Yoon S, Lee HK, et al. 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Twelve novel SNPs of the goat POU1F1 gene and their associations with cashmere traits. Small Rumin. Res. 85: 116-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smallrumres.2009.08.002   Lan X, Pan C, Zhang L, Zhao M, et al. (2009b). A novel missense (A79V) mutation of goat PROP1 gene and its association with production traits. Mol. Biol. Rep. 36: 2069-2073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11033-008-9418-x PMid:19031010   Lan XY, Lai X, Li ZJ, Wang J, et al. (2010) Effects of genetic variability of the caprine homeobox transcription factor HESX1 gene on performance traits. Mol. Biol. Rep. 37: 441-449. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11033-009-9625-0 PMid:19629745   Lasky-Su J and Lange C (2010). Statistical challenges for genome-wide association studies of suicidality using family data. Eur. Psychiatry 25: 307-309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.12.019 PMid:20447807 PMCid:2925169   Lawson MJ and Zhang L (2008). 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2010
B. L. Guo, Jiao, Y., He, C., Wei, L. X., Chang, Z. H., Yue, X. P., Lan, X. Y., Chen, H., and Lei, C. Z., A novel polymorphism of the lactoferrin gene and its association with milk composition and body traits in dairy goats, vol. 9, pp. 2199-2206, 2010.
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