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Southern blots of genomic DNA from 23 strains of laboratory mice and 19 individual wild mice were examined for restriction fragment length polymorphisms in their loci encoding the T-cell receptors (Tcr): the constant regions of the α, β, and γ chains (C α,C β, andC γ) and a variable region family of the β chain (V β8). Only a few polymorphisms were observed for each locus in the laboratory mice after using three restriction enzymes,Bam HI,Eco RI, andHind III. All the laboratory mice examined fall into one of two types for theC α,C β andV β8 loci and one of three types for theC γ. These types are found in some of the wild mice studied, indicating that they were already present in the founder mice of laboratory mouse strains. In contrast, theTcr genes are highly polymorphic among wild mice. Analysis of the polymorphisms in these loci suggests that laboratory mice have inherited their genes not only fromMus musculus domesticus, but also from other subspecies, and much more than previously believed from Asian subspecies.
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Nobuhara, H., Kuida, K., Furutani, M. et al. Polymorphism of T-cell receptor genes among laboratory and wild mice: Diverse origins of laboratory mice. Immunogenetics 30, 405–413 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02421171
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