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Snowflake Gene?
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Shadow Scar
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Snowflake Gene?
Just a little confused with this gene. This mare has had four foals with only two carrying the snowflake gene, so I'm just a little confused on how to predict it being passed down. Is it dominant like silver or roan or recessive like flaxen? Or is it more complicated like the leopard and snowflake patterns? So confused!
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Re: Snowflake Gene?
It has a 50-50 chance of being passed down, assuming the sire of her foal is solid. She has a single LP gene, since her sire had LP and her dam did not.Shadow Scar wrote:Just a little confused with this gene. This mare has had four foals with only two carrying the snowflake gene, so I'm just a little confused on how to predict it being passed down. Is it dominant like silver or roan or recessive like flaxen? Or is it more complicated like the leopard and snowflake patterns? So confused!
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Lp is an "incomplete dominant", which I will quote below what wikipedia says about it to give you a better understanding:
"A dominant gene requires only a single copy to produce an affected phenotype; an incomplete dominant gene produces a different result depending on whether one or two copies are present. A horse's genotype may be lp/lp (homozygous recessive), Lp/lp (heterozygous), or Lp/Lp (homozygous dominant)."
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