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Mutation gives sheep beautiful buttocks

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DNA change between genes is behind big-bottomed sheep.

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  1. Freking, B.A et al. Identification of the single base change causing the callipyge muscle hypertrophy phenotype, the only known example of polar overdominance in Mammals. _Genome Research_ 10.1101/gr.571002 (2002).

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Whitfield, J. Mutation gives sheep beautiful buttocks. Nature (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/news020916-3

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