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New evidence of unbalanced sex-chromosome constitutions in the mouse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Anne McLaren
Anne McLaren
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Agricultural Research Council Unit of Animal Genetics, Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, 9
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Some anomalous results are described of genetical tests using the sex-linked markers Tabby and Bent-tail. The results are shown to be consistent with the demonstration by Welshons & Russell (1959) that the X/O chromosome constitution is female, and suggest that the condition can arise from non-disjunction in the female as well as from non-disjunction in the male parent. A single animal of presumed X/X/y constitution appeared anatomically to be fully male, but died before breeding test could be performed.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , July 1960 , pp. 253 - 261
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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