Polar overdominance

Polar overdominance

Polar overdominance is a unique form of inheritance (described in sheep) whereby a mutant Callipyge allele must be inherited from the father to cause muscle hypertrophy (big buttocks).

ee also

*Imprinting (genetics)

External links

* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8662506 Polar overdominance at the ovine callipyge locus] , National Center for Biotechnology Information, retrieved January 1, 2007


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