TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification of Mom7, a novel modifier of ApcMin/1 on mouse chromosome 18
AU - Kwong, Lawrence N.
AU - Shedlovsky, Alexandra
AU - Biehl, Bryan S.
AU - Clipson, Linda
AU - Pasch, Cheri A.
AU - Dove, William F.
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - The ApcMin mouse model of colorectal cancer provides a discrete, quantitative measurement of tumor multiplicity, allowing for robust quantitative trait locus analysis. This advantage has previously been used to uncover polymorphic modifiers of the Min phenotype: Mom1, which is partly explained by Pla2g2a; Mom2, a spontaneous mutant modifier; and Mom3, which was discovered in an outbred cross. Here, we describe the localization of a novel modifier, Mom7, to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 18. Mom7 was mapped in crosses involving four inbred strains: C57BL/6J (B6), BTBR/Pas (BTBR), AKR/J (AKR), and A/J. There are at least two distinct alleles of Mom7: the recessive, enhancing BTBR, AKR, and A/J alleles and the dominant, suppressive B6 allele. Homozygosity for the enhancing alleles increases tumor number by approximately threefold in the small intestine on both inbred and F1 backgrounds. Congenic line analysis has narrowed the Mom7 region to within 7.4 Mb of the centromere, 28 Mb proximal to Apc. Analysis of SNP data from various genotyping projects suggests that the region could be as small as 4.4 Mb and that there may be five or more alleles of Mom7 segregating among the many strains of inbred mice. This has implications for experiments involving ApcMin and comparisons between different or mixed genetic backgrounds.
AB - The ApcMin mouse model of colorectal cancer provides a discrete, quantitative measurement of tumor multiplicity, allowing for robust quantitative trait locus analysis. This advantage has previously been used to uncover polymorphic modifiers of the Min phenotype: Mom1, which is partly explained by Pla2g2a; Mom2, a spontaneous mutant modifier; and Mom3, which was discovered in an outbred cross. Here, we describe the localization of a novel modifier, Mom7, to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 18. Mom7 was mapped in crosses involving four inbred strains: C57BL/6J (B6), BTBR/Pas (BTBR), AKR/J (AKR), and A/J. There are at least two distinct alleles of Mom7: the recessive, enhancing BTBR, AKR, and A/J alleles and the dominant, suppressive B6 allele. Homozygosity for the enhancing alleles increases tumor number by approximately threefold in the small intestine on both inbred and F1 backgrounds. Congenic line analysis has narrowed the Mom7 region to within 7.4 Mb of the centromere, 28 Mb proximal to Apc. Analysis of SNP data from various genotyping projects suggests that the region could be as small as 4.4 Mb and that there may be five or more alleles of Mom7 segregating among the many strains of inbred mice. This has implications for experiments involving ApcMin and comparisons between different or mixed genetic backgrounds.
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U2 - 10.1534/genetics.107.071217
DO - 10.1534/genetics.107.071217
M3 - Article
C2 - 17435219
AN - SCOPUS:34250724015
SN - 0016-6731
VL - 176
SP - 1237
EP - 1244
JO - Genetics
JF - Genetics
IS - 2
ER -