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Michel Georges1, Carole Charlier, Noelle Cockett
1Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège (B43), 20 Bd de Colonster, 4000-Liège, Belgium. michel.georges@ulg.ac.be
Abstract:
The callipyge phenotype in sheep is an inherited muscular hypertrophy that affects only heterozygous individuals who receive the CLPG mutation from their father. The CLPG mutation is a single nucleotide substitution in what is probably a long-range control element (LRCE) within the DLK1-GTL2 imprinted domain. Recent results suggest that the unique mode of inheritance of callipyge, referred to as polar overdominance, results from the combination of the cis-effect of the CLPG mutation on the expression levels of genes in the DLK1-GTL2 imprinted domain, and the trans interaction between the products of reciprocally imprinted genes.
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