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Sooty foot, a novel mouse mutation that affects the pigmentation of exposed skin, but not hair, maps to chromosome 2.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Sept 1997
Budd P S, Antoniou J, Mellor A L, Jackson I J
Abstract excerpt
We have characterized a novel recessive mouse mutation, named sooty foot, that increases the pigmentation of the exposed skin on the foot pads, the genital region, around the snout and muzzle, the ears, and the tail. By contrast, the pigmentation of the hair is unaffected. We have localized the mutation to Chromosome 2 by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of simple sequence repeats from pooled DNA...
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