Coat colour in mouse populations selected for weight gain: support for hitchhiking, not pleiotropy.

doi:10.1017/S0016672312000778

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Coat colour in mouse populations selected for weight gain: support for hitchhiking, not pleiotropy.

Genetics research - 1 Feb 2013

Hedrick Philip W

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With many molecular markers in many species, research efforts in quantitative genetics have focused on dissecting these traits and understanding the importance of factors such as correlated response due to hitchhiking or pleiotropy. Here, in an examination of long-term selection experiments in mice, the evidence strongly supports the primary importance of hitchhiking on the coat colour loci brown and dilute in...

Topics

Animals
Gene Frequency
Genetic Drift
Genetic Linkage
Genetic Pleiotropy
Genetics, Population
Hair Color
Mice
Phenotype
Pigmentation
Selection, Genetic
Stochastic Processes
Weight Gain

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PMID: 23343759
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672312000778

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