Article
Molecular basis for the dominant white phenotype in the domestic pig.
Genome research - 1 Aug 1998
Marklund S, Kijas J, Rodriguez-Martinez H, Rönnstrand L, Funa K, Moller M, Lange D, Edfors-Lilja I, Andersson L
Abstract excerpt
The change of phenotypic traits in domestic animals and crops as a response to selective breeding mimics the much slower evolutionary change in natural populations. Here, we describe that the dominant white phenotype in domestic pigs is caused by two mutations in the KIT gene encoding the mast/st...
Topics
- Alternative Splicing
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Exons
- Genes, Dominant
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Hair Color
- Introns
- Leukocyte Count
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Phenotype
- Point Mutation
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit
- Swine
- Transcription, Genetic