von Willebrand disease (vWD) is the most commonly diagnosed congenital bleeding disorder. The laboratory diagnosis of type 2 variants and type 3 vWD is reasonably well defined, and characterization of the von Willebrand factor (vWF) gene has facilitated definition of their molecular basis. However, for type 1 vWD, the laboratory diagnosis poses a diagnostic dilemma, and knowledge of its molecul...

Commercial fruit production in Norway is located at around latitude 60° north, demanding a careful choice of adapted cultivars. The most comprehensive collection apple genetic resources being kept the Norwegian Apple Collection (NAC) Njøs Fruit and Berry Centre (NJØS). contains 350 accessions was recently genotyped with single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array. Curated SNP data were used for ...