Phenotypic selection: a successful strategy to fix major genes of hypertension. |
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| Authors: | I Kl?ting P Kovács J van den Brandt |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Greifswald, Karlsburg, Germany. |
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| Abstract: | Hypertension is dominantly inherited in cross hybrids between hypertensive SHR/Mol and normotensive BB/OK rats. We used these cross hybrids for repeated backcrossing of selected hypertensive animals onto normotensive BB/OK rats to fix high blood pressure and to generate a hypertensive and diabetic BB/OK rat subline. After 8 backcrosses, the backcross parents were genetically analysed with the aid of 259 microsatellite markers to identify SHR genes causing blood pressure of 177 +/- 10 mmHg in this BB/OK rat subline. Loci on chromosomes 1, 14 and 18 showed longest heterozygosity. These loci might contain major genes of the SHR rat causing hypertension in this BB/OK rat subline. This classical strategy seems to be most suitable to fix major genes of hypertension in particular and complex traits in general and therefore to generate new animal models. |
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