Ty, thanks for correcting my misconceptions. The less garbage goes into the old mental mill, the less garbage comes out. And there was nothing offensive in your post.

The information about the mother of the patternless and your harlequins convinced me that harlequin is not a recessive mutant gene. Now harlequin is back in the "Wotinell is going on here?" category.

As for patternless babies, having an unrelated mother and father lowers the probability that patternless is caused by a recessive mutant gene. But if patternless is caused by a recessive mutant gene, either the same mutation or two almost identical mutations occurred in both ancestral lines. Or there was a common ancestor in the unrecorded past. I really hope one of those is true.

Paul Hollander

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