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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
Abstract excerpt
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 produces the tobiano spotting pattern in horses, was in coupling with both AIA and AIB alleles at the albumin locus. The...
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