A framework for detecting and characterizing genetic background-dependent imprinting effects.

ABSTRACT: Genomic imprinting, where the effects of alleles depend on their parent-of-origin, can be an important component of the genetic architecture of complex traits. Although there has been a rapidly increasing number of studies of genetic architecture that have examined imprinting effects, none have examined whether imprinting effects depend on genetic background. Such effects are critical for the evolution of genomic imprinting because they allow the imprinting state of a locus to evolve as a function of genetic background. Here we develop a two-locus model of epistasis that includes epistatic interactions involving imprinting effects and apply this model to scan the mouse genome for loci that modulate the imprinting effects of quantitative trait loci (QTL). The inclusion of imprinting leads t

SUBMITTER: Wolf JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2975584 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature