Transmission ratio distortion in mouse t-haplotypes is due to multiple distorter genes acting on a responder locus |
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Authors: | Mary F. Lyon |
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Affiliation: | MRC Radiobiology Unit Harwell, Didcot, Oxon OX11 ORD, England |
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Abstract: | Transmission ratios of male mice heterozygous for various combinations of partial t-haplotypes provide evidence in support of a model for the genetic basis of ratio distortion, involving two or more distorter genes acting on a responder locus. The t form of the responder locus, Tcr, in the medial part of the haplotype, must be present and heterozygous for distortion to occur. When the responder alone is present, as in tlow haplotypes, the chromosome carrying it is transmitted in a low ratio (<50%). The t forms of the distorter loci act additively, in cis or trans, to raise the transmission of whichever chromosome carries Tcr. Identified distorter loci are Tcd-1, in the proximal part of the haplotype, Tcd-2, distal to Tcr, and probably Tcd-3, lying between Tcr and Tcd-2. In the absence of Tcr the distorters are transmitted normally. The system is compared with the SD system of Drosophila. |
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