Tobiano spotting pattern in horses: linkage of To with AlA and linkage disequilibrium.

doi:10.1093/jhered/89.1.104

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Tobiano spotting pattern in horses: linkage of To with AlA and linkage disequilibrium.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Duffield D A, Goldie P L

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In a study of 2,786 tobiano and non-tobiano horses involved in paint horse breeding programs throughout the United States, the inheritance of the tobiano color pattern gene was tracked in pedigrees using the tightly linked polymorphic albumin gene. The dominant tobiano allele (T(o)), which produc...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Genes, Dominant
Genetic Linkage
Hair Color
Horses
Linkage Disequilibrium

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