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Genetic localization and phenotypic expression of X-linked cataract (Xcat) in Mus musculus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Jack Favor  and
Walter Pretsch
Jack Favor*
Affiliation:
GSF-Institut für Säugetiergenetik, D-8042 Neuherberg, Federal Republic of Germany
Walter Pretsch
Affiliation:
GSF-Institut für Säugetiergenetik, D-8042 Neuherberg, Federal Republic of Germany
*
* Corresponding author.
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Linkage data relative to the markers tabby and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase are presented to locate X-linked cataract (Xcat) in the distal portion of the mouse X-chromosome between jimpy and hypophosphatemia. The human X-linked cataract-dental syndrome, Nance–Horan Syndrome, also maps closely to human hypophosphatemia and would suggest homology between mouse Xcat and human Nance-Horan Syndrome genes. In hemizygous males and homozygous females penetrance is complete with only slight variation in the degree of expression. Phenotypic expression in Xcat heterozygous females ranges from totally clear to totally opaque lenses. The phenotypic expression between the two lenses of a heterozygous individual could also vary between totally clear and totally opaque lenses. However, a correlation in the degree of expression between the eyes of an individual was observed. A variegated pattern of lens opacity was evident in female heterozygotes. Based on these observations, the site of gene action for the Xcat locus is suggested to be endogenous to the lens cells and the precursor cell population of the lens is concluded to be small. The identification of an X-linked cataract locus is an important contribution to the estimate of the number of mutable loci resulting in cataract, an estimate required so that dominant cataract mutagenesis results may be expressed on a per locus basis. The Xcat mutation may be a useful marker for a distal region of the mouse X-chromosome which is relatively sparsely marked and the X-linked cataract mutation may be employed in gene expression and lens development studies.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 56 , Issue 2-3 , October 1990 , pp. 157 - 162
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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