TY - JOUR AU - Sundström, Elisabeth AU - Imsland, Freyja AU - Mikko, Sofia AU - Wade, Claire AU - Sigurdsson, Snaevar AU - Pielberg, Gerli Rosengren AU - Golovko, Anna AU - Curik, Ino AU - Seltenhammer, Monika H. AU - Sölkner, Johann AU - Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin AU - Andersson, Leif PY - 2012 DA - 2012/08/02 TI - Copy number expansion of the STX17 duplication in melanoma tissue from Grey horses JO - BMC Genomics SP - 365 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Greying with age in horses is an autosomal dominant trait, associated with loss of hair pigmentation, melanoma and vitiligo-like depigmentation. We recently identified a 4.6 kb duplication in STX17 to be associated with the phenotype. The aims of this study were to investigate if the duplication in Grey horses shows copy number variation and to exclude that any other polymorphism is uniquely associated with the Grey mutation. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-365 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-13-365 ID - Sundström2012 ER -