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From: "Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-04-23 19:15:59 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: dry skin
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

In this ferret adrenal disease article

http://www.aemv.org/Documents/2006_AEMV_proceedings_10.pdf

the genetics section at the bottom of page 71

which includes

BEGIN QUOTE

...research being conducted by Dr. Michelle Hawkins at the
University of California at Davis is first looking for a homologous
gene in the ferret to the human MEN1 gene. At this time, a
homologue has been identified. The sequence of the normal
ferret MEN1 gene must be completed, then it can be determined
in which tissues the normal gene is expressed. The next step
will be to test neoplastic tissues from affected animals for mutations
within these genes to determine whether an association can be made
with the human MEN syndromes. (M. Hawkins, written communication,
January 2006...

END QUOTE

People are finally looking at genetic vulnerability in ferrets, but so far
only a few of the possible sources of such vulnerability have been
investigated at all.




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