GENETICS OF MOUSE HEMOGLOBINS *
GENETICS OF MOUSE HEMOGLOBINS *
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小鼠血红蛋白的遗传学 *
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发表时间:
1974
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
E. Mcfarland
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作者:
E. Russell;E. Mcfarland
The power of genetic analysis and genetic manipulation is at present considerably greater for the house mouse than for any other experimental mammal. A great variety of genetically homogeneous material is available in the form of mice from 244 different inbred strains.' This variety makes possible structural analysis of hemoglobins through pooling of blood from large numbers of mice from the same inbred strain, with the expectation that other investigators can at any time obtain identical research material for further analysis. Knowledge of the formal genetics of house mice is also quite extensive; mutant alleles have been recognized at 453 different genetic loci, of which 275 have been located in 19 linkage groups.z Most of these have recently been correlated with specific ones of the 20 chromosomes, all of which have been identified cytologically.3 This richness of background genetic knowledge demonstrates that studies of hemoglobin structure and genetics may be particularly fruitful in mice. We hope to bring this potentiality home to this particularly pertinent audience by covering as succinctly as possible the current state of knowledge concerning genes controlling the structures of both a and B chains of adult mouse hemoglobins. We will discuss primary structures, but will also deal with practical formal genetics, especially as this relates to our concepts of mammalian unit genes. Variations in mouse embryonic hemoglobins will also be discussed briefly, but of course nothing can be said about distinct feral hemoglobins, since it is doubtful if these exist in the mouse. Most of the material summarized here has been published at length elsewhere, as indicated in reviews by P0pp,~9 Glucksohn-Waelsch,6 Russell and Bernstein,' and Russell and colleagues.8* Quite different methods must be used for detailed physical chemical studies determining primary structure of a polypeptide chain than for equally detailed breeding tests searching for evidence of genetic linkage. You are all amply aware that primary structure analysis requires time, skill, patience, , and a reliable supply of lots of hemoglobin with the same primary structure. Formal genetic studies require rapid, foolproof methods for assigning a specific genotype to a single individual in a segregating population, so that techniques other than fingerprinting or sequencing must be used. We have chosen to present in this paper one new timesaving method, with the firstfruits of its application; namely, critical data establishing linkage relations of the locus controlling structure of the mouse adult hemoglobin a chain.