• Introduction
• Cattle
  • Parentage and DNA profile
  • Meat traceability
  • Genetic Diseases
  • Genetic abnormalities
  • Milk proteins
  • DGAT1
  • Coat colour
• Dog
  • Parentage and DNA profile
• Goat
  • Parentage and DNA profile
• Horse
  • Parentage and DNA profile
• Sheep
  • Parentage and DNA profile
  • Scrapie genetic susceptibility
• Pigs
  • Parentage and DNA profile
  • • Porcine Stress Syndrome (PSS) or Malignant Hyperthermia (MH)
  • Meat traceability
• Genotype SNPs
• Remission of samples

Scrapie genetic susceptibility

The genetic susceptibility to Scrapie is modulated by the allelic variations in codons 136, 141, 154 and 171 of the Prion protein gene (PRNP). A test to detect the polymorphisms in these 4 gene codons is available.