Shadows in the forest: Uncovering unusual colouration records in mammals from the Ecuadorian Tropical Andes [PDF]
Variations in colouration patterns have been reported in numerous wildlife species, particularly birds. However, the increased use of camera traps for wildlife monitoring has enabled the detection of elusive species and phenotypic variations that might ...
Elias Viteri-Basso +3 more
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A 46-year-old man presented with a history of a congenital pigment disorder. On physical examination hypopigmented and depigmented patches were present on the mid-forehead, anterior chest, and extremities. He also had loss of pigment of the medial eyebrows and a white forelock.
Hazan, Carole,, Hazan, Carole
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Evaluating possible maternal effect lethality and genetic background effects in Naa10 knockout mice. [PDF]
Amino-terminal (Nt-) acetylation (NTA) is a common protein modification, affecting approximately 80% of all human proteins. The human essential X-linked gene, NAA10, encodes for the enzyme NAA10, which is the catalytic subunit in the N-terminal ...
Gholson J Lyon +11 more
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Improving the diagnosis of renal tumours of young people through integrated molecular analysis [PDF]
Background Renal tumours account for one in twenty paediatric cancers, with Wilms tumour (WT) the most common in young children and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) predominating in adolescents and young adults.
Sarah M. Leiter +26 more
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Piebaldism with café‐au‐lait macules resulting from a novel mutation of KIT gene in a three‐generation Chinese family [PDF]
Li X +6 more
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Piebaldismo en un recién nacido. Leucodermia rara Piebaldism in a newborn child. A rare leukoderma
El piebaldismo es un defecto genético infrecuente donde las anomalías en la pigmentación de la piel se restringen al pelo y a la piel, aunque se han hallado ciertas similitudes con fenotipos de otras enfermedades.
Noemí Bárbara Cabrera Domínguez +4 more
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Animal breeds are the diverse outcome of the thousands-year-long process of livestock domestication. Many of these breeds are piebald, resulting from the artificial selection by pastoralists of animals bearing a genetic condition known as leucism, and selected for their productive, behavioural, or aesthetical traits.
Gabriele Volpato +2 more
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Novel Germline KIT Variants in Families With Severe Piebaldism: Case Series and Literature Review [PDF]
Haiming Gao, Xiaoliang Liu
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First record of pigmentation disorder in the Fringe-lipped Bat Trachops cirrhosus (Spix, 1823) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from southeast Brazil [PDF]
Piebaldism is a genetic pigmentation disorder, which is caused by absence of melanocytes in parts of the skin and/or hair follicles, with eyes and claws normally pigmented.
Ianna Borloti +2 more
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