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Volume 89, Issue 5

PrP genotypes of free-ranging wapiti () with chronic wasting disease Free

Abstract

Variation in PrP prion gene sequence appears to modulate susceptibility to chronic wasting disease (CWD), a naturally occurring prion disease affecting four North American species of the family Cervidae. Wapiti () PrP is polymorphic at codon 132 [methionine (M) or leucine (L)]. We genotyped 171 samples, collected between 2002 and 2005 from CWD-infected and uninfected wapiti from three free-ranging populations in Colorado, USA, to study influences of PrP polymorphisms on CWD susceptibility further. Overall genotype frequencies for 124 apparently uninfected animals were 65.3 % MM, 32.3 % ML and 2.4 % LL; for 47 CWD-infected animals, these frequencies were 70.2 % MM, 27.7 % ML and 2.1 % LL. Surprisingly, our data revealed that, among recent (approx. 2002–2005) CWD cases detected in free-ranging Colorado wapiti, the three PrP codon 132 genotypes were represented in proportion to their abundance in sampled populations (≥0.24) and all three genotypes showed equivalent susceptibility to infection.

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PrP genotypes of free-ranging wapiti (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) with chronic wasting disease
J. Gen. Virol. 89, 1324 (2008); https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.83424-0
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