1. The original pink-eyed dilution mutation (p) arose in Asiatic mice: implications for the H4 minor histocompatibility antigen, Myod1 regulation and the origin of inbred strains.
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Brilliant MH, Ching A, Nakatsu Y, and Eicher EM
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- Alleles, Animals, Animals, Wild genetics, Animals, Wild immunology, Asia, Base Sequence, DNA genetics, DNA Primers genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Mice immunology, Mice, Inbred Strains genetics, Mice, Inbred Strains immunology, Minor Histocompatibility Antigens genetics, Minor Histocompatibility Loci, Molecular Sequence Data, MyoD Protein genetics, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Eye Color genetics, Mice genetics, Mutation
- Abstract
Allelic variation of the mouse pink-eyed dilution (p) gene in common laboratory strains and wild mice was examined by Southern blot and by polymerase chain reaction. In these assays the original p mutation allele found in strains SJL/J, 129/J, B10.129(21m), P/J and FS/Ei most closely matches an Asian Mus musculus allele, confirming anecdotal accounts of the Asian origin of this mutation. In contrast, the wild-type allele found in other common laboratory strains was apparently derived from Mus domesticus. Analysis of chromosome 7 loci both proximal and distal to the p locus demonstrates that strains SJL/J, 129/J, B10.129(21M), P/J and FS/Ei contain DNA segments of varying length derived from M. musculus. Strains 129/J and B10.129(21M) contain the largest segment of M. musculus-derived DNA (about 5 cM), including the loci Myod1, p, three clustered GABAA receptor subunit loci (Gabrg3, Gabra5 and Gabrb3), and Snrpn. The difference in the species origin of genes from this region of chromosome 7 may underlie the basis of the antigenicity of the minor histocompatibility antigen H4, defined by the strain B10.129(21M), and may account for the enhanced Myod1 activity observed in SJL/J mice.
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- 1994
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