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Introductory Animal Genetics
Animal Science 221

Linkage

Anderson, L. and K. Sandberg, 1982. A linkage group composed of three coat color genes and three serum protein loci in horses. Journal of Heredity 73:91.

Anderson and Sandberg, 1982 published results on linkage studies for coat color and serum protein loci.

A)

Serum Albumin locus and roan coat color
Modes of inheritance :

Serum Albumen locus has among its alleles, AlA and AlB which are codominant.

Roan coats in horses is the result of white hairs intermingled among hair with color in the heterozygote with the roan allele, Rn. The homozygote genotype, RnRn, is lethal.

Anderson and Sandberg reported results from mating a dihybrid stallion, AlAAlB Rnrn with non-roan mares.

The number of progeny resulting from the four possible sire gametes were:

Sire gametes       # Progeny
AlARn31
AlArn 1
AlBRn 1
AlBrn33
Total66

What is the percent recombination between these two loci? (To the nearest thousandth)

   

B) They also summarized 91 progeny from 7 stallions, each with the genotype, AlAAlBEe. In all sires AlAE and AlBe were linked together on the same chromosome.

This extension locus, E, has the allele e that when homozygous ee produces chestnut. The genotypes EE and Ee are black.

The distribution of the 91 progeny was :

Sire gamete

AlAEAlAeAlBEAlBe
progeny number      391645

What is the recombination frequency between the serum albumen locus and the extension locus? (To the nearest thousandth)

   



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