[Establishment of the detection method for two causative genes of cattle arachnomelia syndrome].

Arachnomelia syndrome (AS) is a recessive inherited disease in cattle. Although the arachnomelia phenotypes are virtually identical in Brown Swiss and Simmental cattle, the causative mutation are different, which are a 1 bp insertion c.363-364insG in the sulfite oxidase (SUOX) gene and a 2 bp deletion c.

[Arachnomelia syndrome: a skeletal system malformation inherited disorder].

Arachnomelia syndrome (AS) is a lethal congenital malformation of skeleton in cattle, which proved to be an autosomal recessive inherited defect. This disease was mainly observed in European Brown Swiss and German Fleckvieh populations. This review focused on the discovery history, pathologic characteristics, mode of inheritance, and progresses on molecular mechanism of AS in both European Brown Swiss and German Fleckvieh populations.