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The Journal of Heredity 2002:93(3)
© 2002 The American Genetic Association 93:210-213

Brief Communication

The Charles River "Hairless" Rat Mutation Maps to Chromosome 1: Allelic With Fuzzy and a Likely Orthologue of Mouse Frizzy

K. Ahearn, G. Akkouris, P. R. Berry, R. R. Chrissluis, I. M. Crooks, A. K. Dull, S. Grable, J. Jeruzal, J. Lanza, C. Lavoie, R. A. Maloney, M. Pitruzzello, R. Sharma, T. A. Stoklasek, J. Tweeddale, and T. R. King

From the Department of Biological Sciences, Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT 06050.

Address correspondence to T. R. King at the above address.

Recent evidence has indicated that the recessive mutation affecting hypotrichosis in the Charles River (CR) "hairless" rat does not involve the hairless gene (hr) on rat chromosome 15. To determine if this mutation might be allelic (or orthologous) with any other previously mapped hypotrichosis-generating mutation in mammals, we have produced a panel of backcross rats segregating for the CR hairless rat mutation as well as numerous other markers from throughout the rat genome. Analysis of this panel has located the CR hairless rat's hypotrichosis-generating mutation on chromosome 1, near Myl2, where only the fuzzy mutation in rat (fz) and the frizzy mutation in mouse (fr) have been previously localized. Intercrossing fz/fz and CR hairless rats produced hybrid offspring with abnormal hair, showing that these two rat mutations are allelic. We suggest that the CR hairless rat mutation and fuzzy be renamed frizzy-Charles River (frCR) and frizzy-Harlan (frH), respectively, to reflect their likely orthology with the mouse fr mutation.


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