Quantitative trait loci that modify the sootiness of yellow pigmentation in KK-A(y)/a mice

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 639-644

  Suto, Jun Ichi ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^b   Yamanaka, Harumichi ^a   Ito, Shosuke ^b   Sekikawa, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME 15; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAIR COLOR; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; MELANINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033863606     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003350010136     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Barsh GS (1996) The genetics of pigmentation: from fancy genes to complex traits. Trends Genet 12, 299-305
2. Doolittle DP, Davisson MT, Guidi JN, Green MC (1996) Catalog of mutant genes and polymorphic loci. In MF Lyon, S Rastan, SDM Brown (eds) Genetic Variants and Strains of the Laboratory Mouse, 3rd edn. Vol 1. (Oxford, New York, Tokyo: Oxford University Press) pp 17-854
3. Fan W, Boston BA, Kesterson RA, Hruby VJ, Cone RD (1997) Role of melanocortigenic neurons in feeding and the agouti obesity syndrome. Nature 385, 165-168
4. Gunn TM, Miller KA, He L, Hyman RW, Davis RW et al. (1999) The mouse mahogany locus encodes a trans membrane form of human altractin. Nature 398, 152-156
5. Huszar D, Lynch CA, Fairchild-Huntress V, Dunmore J, Fang Q et al. (1997) Targeted disruption of the melanocortin-4 receptor results in obesity in mice. Cell 88, 131-141
6. Ito S, Fujita K (1985) Microanalysis of eumelanin and pheomelanin in hair and melanomas by chemical degradation and liquid chromatography. Anal Biochem 144, 527-536
7. Jackson IJ (1991) Mouse coat color mutations: a molecular genetic resource which spans the centuries. BioEssays 13, 439-446
8. Jackson IJ, Bennett DC (1990) Identification of the albino mutation of mouse tyrosinase by analysis of an in vitro revertant. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 87, 7010-7014
9. Lander E, Kruglyak L (1995) Genetic dissection of complex traits: guidelines for interpreting and reporting linkage results. Nat Genet 11, 241-247
10. Lander ES, Green P, Abrahamson J, Barlow A, Daly MJ et al. (1987) MAPMAKER: an interactive computer package for constructing primary genetic linkage maps of experimental and natural populations. Genomics 1, 174-181
11. Lu D, Willard D, Patel IR, Kadwell S, Overton L et al. (1994) Agouti protein is an antagonist of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor. Nature 371, 799-802
12. Mather K, North SB (1940) Umbrous: a case of dominance modification in mice. J Genet 40, 229-240
13. Miller KA, Gunn TM, Carrasquillo MM, Lamoreux ML, Galbraith DB et al. (1997) Genetic studies of the mouse mutations mahogany and mahoganoid. Genetics 146, 1407-1415
14. Nagle DL, McGrail SH, Vitale J, Woolf EA, Dussault Jr BJ et al. (1999) The mahogany protein is a receptor involved in suppression of obesity. Nature 398, 148-152
15. Ohta N (1993) Shikisai Kogaku (in Japanese). (Tokyo: Tokyo University of Electricity Press)
16. Ollemann MM, Lamoreux ML, Wilson BD, Barsh GS (1998) Interaction of agouti protein with melanocortin 1 receptor in vitro and in vivo. Genes Dev 12, 316-330
17. Peters J, Siracusa LD, Pomp D, Zuberi AR, Church D et al. (1998) Mouse Chromosome 2. Mamm Genome 8, Suppl, S27-S49
18. Robbins LS, Nadeau JH, Johnson KR, Kelly MA, Roselli-Rehfuss L et al. (1993) Pigmentation phenotype of variant extension locus alleles result from point mutations that alter MSH receptor function. Cell 72, 827-834
19. Robinson R (1959) Sable and umbrous mice. Genetica 29, 319-326
20. Robinson R (1977) Umbrous: a dominant darkening gene in the Syrian hamster. J Hered 68, 328
21. Silvers WK (1979) The coat colors of mice. A model for mammalian gene action and interaction. (New York, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer-Verlag)
22. Siracusa LD (1994) The agouti gene: turned on to yellow. Trends Genet 10, 423-428
23. v allele on quantitative regulation. Mamm Genome 9, 506-510
24. Yokoyama T, Silversides DW, Waymire KG, Kwon BS, Takeuchi T et al. (1990) Conserved cysteine to serine mutation in tyrosinase is responsible for the classical albino mutation in laboratory mice. Nucleic Acids Res 18, 7293-7298