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Coat colour phenotype, leucopenia, and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in BB rats.
Diabetes research (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Sept 1990
Kloeting I, Vogt L
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to IDDM in BB rats is linked to the MHC and to one or two non-MHC genes. It is postulated that one of the non-MHC genes is leucopenia inherited as autosomal recessive trait which is, at least in part, due to the absence of RT6.1 T lymphocyte subsets. Because the RT6 alloantigenic system is located near the coat colour gene c, we analyzed the coat colour genes of BB rats by production of F1 and F2...
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