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Molecular markers for the agouti coat color locus of the mouse

M Lovett et al. Genetics. 1987 Apr.

Abstract

The agouti (a) coat color locus of the mouse acts within the microenvironment of the hair follicle to control the relative amount and distribution of yellow and black pigment in the coat hairs. Over 18 different mutations with complex dominance relationships have been described at this locus. The lethal yellow (Ay) mutation is the top dominant of this series and is uniquely associated with an endogenous provirus, Emv-15, in three highly inbred strains. However, we report here that it is unlikely that the provirus itself causes the Ay-associated alteration in coat color, since one strain of mice (YBR-Ay/a) lacks the provirus but still retains a yellow coat color. Using single-copy mouse DNA sequences from the regions flanking Emv-15 we have detected three patterns of restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) within this region that can be used as molecular markers for different agouti locus alleles: a wild-type agouti (A) pattern, a pattern which generally cosegregates with the nonagouti (a) mutation, and a pattern which is specific to Emv-15. We have used these RFLPs and a panel of 28 recombinant inbred mouse strains to determine the genetic linkage of these sequences with the agouti locus and have found complete concordance between the two (95% confidence limit of 0.00 to 3.79 centimorgans). We have also physically mapped these sequences by in situ hybridization to band H1 of chromosome 2, thus directly confirming previous assignments of the location of the agouti locus.

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