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The abnormal genetic architecture of inbred strains and the fixation of multiple alleles that affect fitness will almost inevitably produce unusual pleiotropic and epistatic effects on a range of complex traits.
mod(mdg4) has been implicated in a range of cellular and developmental processes, including chromatin insulator functions [ 52] and apoptosis [ 53], and it has been suggested that its many different isoforms underlie the pleiotropic nature of this gene [ 49].
The Chr 10 locus clearly has pleiotropic effects on the CNS, but its effect on the striatum is more intense.
The acid form, retinoic acid, is a pleiotropic hormone which regulates gene expression in embryonic development, epithelial cell differentiation, hematopoeisis, and tumor cell formation.
To separate the specific role of hypophosphorylated RARα from the pleiotropic effects of the ligand, we expressed a non-phosphorylatable S77A mutant protein in human cancer cells.