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Science 24 May 1996:
Vol. 272. no. 5265, pp. 1099 - 1100
DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5265.1099
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Research News

Elizabeth Pennisi

Cold Spring Harbor, New York--An unusual gene called callipyge, or "beautiful buttocks," causes sheep to add muscle in their hindquarters. New work presented at the genome meeting shows that this gene has an unusual, non-Mendelian pattern of inheritance, and understanding its expression may one day help explain non-Mendelian patterns in human genetic diseases.




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