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Animal breeding

an inheritance pattern in which only heterozygotes that receive the mutant allele from the sire express the trait, first shown for callipyge muscling in sheep.

In animal breeding, polar overdominance refers to an inheritance pattern in which only heterozygotes that receive the mutant allele from the sire express the trait, first shown for callipyge muscling in sheep. This meaning comes from Cockett (1996) in Science.[1]

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References

Cockett, N. E., Jackson, S. P., Shay, T. L., Farnir, F., Berghmans, S., Snowder, G. D., Nielsen, D. M., & Georges, M. (1996). Polar Overdominance at the Ovine callipyge Locus. Science, 273(5272), 236-238. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5272.236

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