An exonic splicing enhancer mutation in DUOX2 causes aberrant alternative splicing and severe congenital hypothyroidism in Bama pigs

• Main Authors: Chunwei Cao (Author), Ying Zhang (Author), Qitao Jia (Author), Xiao Wang (Author), Qiantao Zheng (Author), Hongyong Zhang (Author), Ruigao Song (Author), Yongshun Li (Author), Ailing Luo (Author), Qianlong Hong (Author), Guosong Qin (Author), Jing Yao (Author), Nan Zhang (Author), Yanfang Wang (Author), Hongmei Wang (Author), Qi Zhou (Author), Jianguo Zhao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Company of Biologists, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Pigs share many similarities with humans in terms of anatomy, physiology and genetics, and have long been recognized as important experimental animals in biomedical research. Using an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) mutagenesis screen, we previously identified a large number of pig mutants, which could...