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Effects of post-weaning diet on metabolic parameters and DNA methylation status of the cryptic promoter in the A(vy) allele of viable yellow mice.
The Journal of nutritional biochemistry - 1 Jun 2015
Warzak Denise A, Johnson Sarah A, Ellersieck Mark R, Roberts R Michael, Zhang Xiang, Ho Shuk-Mei, Rosenfeld Cheryl S
Abstract excerpt
Mice carrying the A(vy) allele are epigenetic mosaics. If the majority of cells have an active (demethylated) intracisternal A particle (IAP), mice have a yellow coat color and develop adult-onset obesity and diabetes, while mice whose mosaicism predominantly reflects an inactive (methylated) IAP are pseudoagouti (brown) and less prone to metabolic disease. Brown and yellow coat color A(vy)/a post-weaning mice...
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