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Hello from Texas,

My sister has a patternless female and an albino male. She is wanting to try for a patternless albino/albino patternless.

I have a piece of paper in front of me and I have been trying to do the genetic "math" to figure this out, but I am just not getting it.

She will breed the albino and the patternless next season. After that, should she breed the hets together or breed the hets back to the parents?

What exactly is the genetic code for the patternless albino and the albino patternless?

Thanks for your help.

Tamara
(my brain hurts now from trying to figure this out LOL )

she would have to breed the double hets to each other. Then you should staistically get one out of four that carry both traits. I recommend www.geneticswizard.com You can figure out anything from that. You just enter your mutations and it gives you percentiles of what the babies should be.

actually, only 1/16 will be patt albino, if yor lucky.
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When you mate a patternless(pp) and an albino(aa) together you get double hets (AaPp).

You would then mate the double hets together to get the following theoretical outcomes from 16 individuals:

1 aapp Patternless albino
2 aaPa
1 aaPP
2 Aapp
1 AApp
4 AaPp
2 AaPP
2 AAPp
1 AAPP Normal

Your results may vary and are not guaranteed by any count.

Steven-LGGG

np

theoretically (wow that looks horrible, sp?), all albino strains are 1/16 chance of being a patternless as well. it just doesnt work out that way, for an unknown reason. there are many possible explanations, but until one is proven, it will be considered 1/16.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

if you have AIM, IM me at chichandoCONrosa (i changed my SN)

I agree but telling someone trying to get Tremper PA's that they will get 1/16 is giving them false hope and may discourage them.