Multifactorial inheritance of white facial markings in the Arabian horse.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110831

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Multifactorial inheritance of white facial markings in the Arabian horse.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Woolf C M

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The hypothesis was tested that white facial markings in the Arabian horse show multifactorial inheritance. The hypothesis assumes that (1) alleles at different loci acting in a cumulative manner influence the variation in white facial markings, (2) the amount of whiteness is correlated with the n...

Topics

Animals
Face
Female
Genetic Variation
Hair Color
Horses
Information Systems
Male
Registries
Regression Analysis

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