A SPLICE SITE MUTATION IN A GENE ENCODING FOR A MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY IN THE DOBERMAN PINSCHER.

¹Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Pullman, WA.

²North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC.

³Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA.

⁴Baker Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

⁵Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.