1 A novel type of sequence variation - multiple nucleotide length polymorphisms (MNLPs) discovered in the bovine genome Zhihua Jiang *, 1 , Zeping Wang † , Tanja Kunej *, ‡ , Galen A Williams *, 2 , Jennifer J. Michal * Xiao-Lin Wu *, 3 and Nancy S. Magnuson † * Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 – 6351, USA † School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164- 4660 USA ‡ Department of Animal Science, University of Ljubljana, SI- 1230 Domzale, Slovenia. 2 Present address: Devers Eye Institute, Portland, OR 97210, USA. 3 Present address: Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA. Genetics: Published Articles Ahead of Print, published on April 3, 2007 as 10.1534/genetics.106.069401