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RE: Mosaic MONOSOMY

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Posted by: Paul Hollander at Fri May 7 15:09:38 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Paul Hollander ]  
   

>I agree,those clutch results are not conclusive enough to say that both parents are homozygous albinos..However,i've wondered if perhaps the missing allele condition that a paradox probably has is or isn't inheritable in its own right? (Which would be really long and difficult to prove out either way.)

A missing gene condition is called a deletion. And yes, it can be inherited.

I will be very interested to see pictures of the babies.

Seems to me that there could be chimeras with all skin cells from one member of the chimera while testis/ovary cells could be a mixture. If 80% of the sperm/eggs had an albino mutant gene and only 20% had a normal gene, then that would explain the 4 albino/1 not albino clutch. Or the proportion could be 50:50 and the luck of the draw.

By the way, either the mother or the father could be the albino-looking chimera.

The luck of the draw explains why a gambler can walk out of a casino dripping money one evening. Playing the odds explains why the casino posts a profit at the end of the year. :D

Paul Hollander


   

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