Association in Long-Evans hooded rats of red cell 2,3-diphosphoglycerate levels with hemoglobin types.
Two sublines of commercially available Long-Evans hooded rats have been developed by genetic selection. These sublines have widely differing levels of erythrocyte 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (DPG) due to different alleles at a single genetic locus. In the present work, it is shown that rats from the commercial population are also polymorphic at a hemoglobin locus, probably involving two alleles of the IIIbeta-globin chain locus. Particular hemoglobin types have been found to be strongly associated with certain DPG types, not only in the high-DPG and low-DPG lines but also in the commercial population. Two explanations for this association are considered. One is a single-locus hypothesis, with hemoglobin allelic variation causing DPG variation, and the other is a two-locus hypothesis, with marked linkage disequilibrium.
D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D004163:Diphosphoglyceric Acids / Q000097:blood*; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D010641:Phenotype; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D051381:Rats / Q000235:genetics*
D004163:Diphosphoglyceric Acids; D006454:Hemoglobins