Talk:Agouti (gene)

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Why is this gene called agouti? What's the etymology/source of the name?

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Mice

Mice that are heterozygous for the Agouti yellow allele have yellow coats and tendencies towards obesity. Mice that are homozygous for the Agouti yellow allele have the lethal gene. Mice that are homozygous for the non-agouti allele and non-agouti-yellow allele have non-agouti coat color (such as black).

This passage seems to list three alleles — agouti yellow, non-agouti, non-agouti-yellow — but it could be made clearer. —Tamfang (talk) 05:01, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Go for it! I don't think there's been much added here for a while. Montanabw^(talk) 17:54, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

I can't say I've never rewritten something that I don't know, but I'm not feeling so bold this time. Is there also agouti non-yellow? —Tamfang (talk) 00:20, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm no expert, myself, I only know that it creates the bay color in horses, which is a red body coat with black point coloration, agouti suppresses the extension gene (which makes horses black) so that the recessive form (red) comes out on the body). However it gets there. The bay (horse) article explains the genetic mechanism there, if that helps any. The editor who did all that work is kind of inactive now, but I can reach her via email if you have any specific horse questions. Other than that, I wish you luck!  ;-) Montanabw^(talk) 16:31, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Updating this article

The most recent source is from 2010 and in my opinion the article is written in a way that is not easily understandable. Does anyone think that this page should be updated with more current information and have parts reworded in order to make it more readable? Holdenhansli (talk) 14:47, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Bibliography https://doi.org/10.1006/rwgn.2001.0017

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/obesity-epigenetics-and-gene-regulation-927/

http://www.informatics.jax.org/wksilvers/frames/frame2-1.shtml

I'm thinking of adding these sources to the article. Any thoughts? Holdenhansli (talk) 15:07, 19 September 2019 (UTC)