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Tyrc
Spontaneous Allele Detail

Nomenclature
Symbol: Tyrc
Name: tyrosinase; albino
MGI ID: MGI:1855976
Synonyms: c
Gene: Tyr   Location: Chr7:94577327-94641899 bp, - strand    Genetic Position: Chr7, 44.0 cM
Tyrc/Tyrc and Tyrc/Tyrc-ch Oca2p/ Oca2p

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Mutation
origin
Strain of Origin: old mutant of the mouse fancy
Mutation
description
Allele Type: Spontaneous
Mutation: Single point mutation
  The specific mutation in the albino allele is a G to C transversion causing an amino acid change from cysteine to serine. This mutation introduces a DdeI enzyme restriction site. (J:10889, J:40223)
Inheritance: Recessive
Find Mice (IMSR)
Mouse strains and cell lines available from the International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR)
Carrying this Mutation: Mouse Strains: 42 strains available      Cell Lines: 0 lines available
Carrying any Tyr Mutation: 206 strains or lines available
Expression
In Mice Carrying this Mutation: 75 assay results
Phenotype
summary
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Phenotype Summary by Mammalian Phenotype terms

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Genotypes are listed in the next section.

      Key:  
hm homozygous ht heterozygous
cn conditional genotype  cx complex: > 1 genome feature
tg involves transgenes ot other: hemizygous, indeterminate,...
N normal phenotype expected model not found
Affected SystemsGenotypes:
 
ht1
 
ht2
 
ht3
 
ht4
 
ht5
 
ht6
 
ht7
 
ht8
 
ht9
 
ht10
 
ht11
 
ht12
 
ht13
 
ht14
 
ht15
 
ht16
 
ht17
 
ht18
 
ht19
 
ht20
 
ht21
 
ht22
 
ht23
 
ht24
 
ht25
 
ht26
 
ht27
 
ht28
 
ht29
 
ht30
 
ht31
 
ht32
 
ht33
 
ht34
 
ht35
 
ht36
 
ht37
 
ht38
 
ht39
 
ht40
 
ht41
 
ht42
 
ht43
 
ht44
 
ht45
 
ht46
 
ht47
 
ht48
 
ht49
 
ht50
 
ht51
 
ht52
 
ht53
 
ht54
 
ht55
 
ht56
 
ht57
 
ht58
 
ht59
 
ht60
 
ht61
 
ht62
 
ht63
 
ht64
 
ht65
 
ht66
 
ht67
 
ht68
 
ht69
 
ht70
 
cx71
 
cx72
  
homeostasis/metabolism          
                                                                       
  
lethality/prenatal-perinatal          
                                                                       
  
nervous system          
                                                                       
  
pigmentation          
 
  
skin/coat/nails          
 
  
vision/eye          
                                                                    
Phenotypic
data by
genotype
Phenotypic Data by Genotype

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GenotypeAllelic CompositionGenetic Background
  
 ht1   
Tyrc-10FR60L/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht2   
Tyrc-10R75M/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht3   
Tyrc-112K/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht4   
Tyrc-11DSD/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht5   
Tyrc-12FR60Hb/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht6   
Tyrc-12HATh/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht7   
Tyrc-146G/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht8   
Tyrc-14CoS/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht9   
Tyrc-14FR60Hb/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht10   
Tyrc-15DSD/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht11   
Tyrc-15R145M/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht12   
Tyrc-15R60L/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht13   
Tyrc-16DFiOD/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht14   
Tyrc-16HATh/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht15   
Tyrc-177G/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht16   
Tyrc-17UThc/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht17   
Tyrc-19DTR/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht18   
Tyrc-1DThWb/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht19   
Tyrc-1FAFyh/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht20   
Tyrc-1FATw/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht21   
Tyrc-1FDFoHrc/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht22   
Tyrc-1FR60Hb/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht23   
Tyrc-202G/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht24   
Tyrc-20FATw/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht25   
Tyrc-222THO-I/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht26   
Tyrc-23DVT/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht27   
Tyrc-24R145L/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht28   
Tyrc-24R75M/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht29   
Tyrc-26DVT/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht30   
Tyrc-27FrThc/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht31   
Tyrc-2CHLb/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht32   
Tyrc-2MLPm/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht33   
Tyrc-2R145L/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht34   
Tyrc-2YPSj/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht35   
Tyrc-3YPSd/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht36   
Tyrc-68G/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht37   
Tyrc-7R250H/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht38   
Tyrc-4PB/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht39   
Tyrc-39SAS/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht40   
Tyrc-3R60L/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht41   
Tyrc-3R145L/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht42   
Tyrc-9FR60Hb/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht43   
Tyrc-AL/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht44   
Tyrc-4FR60Hd/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht45   
Tyrc-5FR60Hg/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht46   
Tyrc-LA/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht47   
Tyrc-65K/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht48   
Tyrc-31HATh/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht49   
Tyrc-32DSD/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht50   
Tyrc-38R145L/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht51   
Tyrc-3FAFyh/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht52   
Tyrc-3FDFoHrd/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht53   
Tyrc-3FR60Hb/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht54   
Tyrc-45DSD/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht55   
Tyrc-4CFO/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht56   
Tyrc-51DTD/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht57   
Tyrc-62DSD/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht58   
Tyrc-65G/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht59   
Tyrc-6THO-IV/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht60   
Tyrc-76UT/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht61   
Tyrc-77HATh/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht62   
Tyrc-7THO-II/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht63   
Tyrc-9Pub/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht64   
Tyrc-36FrS/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht65   
Tyrc-3DENb/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht66   
Tyrc-8FrS/Tyrc involves: 101/Rl * C3H/Rl
  
 ht67   
Tyrc-h/Tyrc involves: AKR/J * DBA/2J
  
 ht68   
Tyrc/Tyrc-a involves: C3H/HeJ
  
 ht69   
Tyrc-Bc/Tyrc involves: SELH/Bc * SWV/Bc
  
 ht70   
Tyrc-p/Tyrc Not Specified
  
 cx71   
Thtm1Srt/Thtm1Srt
Tyrc/Tyrc
involves: 129S2/SvPas * C57BL/6J * ICR
  
 cx72   images  
chky/chky
Tyrc/Tyrc
STOCK chky/J
Notes
Tyrc, albino. This very old mutant was already known in Greek and Roman times. Hair and eyes are completely devoid of pigment (J:5436, J:5001, J:30725). The albino mutation affects the amount of tyrosinase, and thus of melanin, in pigment cells, but does not interfere with the production of pigment cells themselves (J:12173, J:13092). Melanocytes with melanosomes showing normal fine structure occur in the retina and hair follicles. Pigment granules are smaller and fewer than normal and completely lack melanin (J:5346, J:5001, J:30725). Tyrosinase is almost absent (J:12173). Although Tyr is the structural gene for tyrosinase, some albino mutations may affect tyrosinase enzyme regulation rather than structure (J:6611), suggesting that these mutations affect tyrosinase inhibition (J:5346), presumably via control regions of the gene. All the mutant alleles are recessive to wild-type in phenotype, but heterozygotes with wild-type produce intermediate amounts of tyrosinase (J:12173). Albino-locus mutants with lightly pigmented eyes have a reduced number of fibers of the optic nerve going to the ipsilateral lateral geniculate nucleus of the brain. This is probably a secondary effect of reduced tyrosinase activity or amount of pigment in the pigment epithelium, since genes at other loci that reduce eye pigmentation also cause the same anomaly (J:5436, J:6064). Abnormal retinal pathways disrupted at the optic chiasm that occur in albinism can be corrected with a Tyr normal transgene (J:22320). Lipofuscin is a terminal oxidation product pigment that accumulates with age. In a cross of C57BL/6J and BALB/cJ, which differ in cardiac deposition of the pigment, this trait segregated with albinism, and is controlled by the Tyr locus (J:15460). Tyrc homozygotes do not perform as well as normal in a number of behavioral tests. It is likely that this effect is mediated, at least in part, by defective vision resulting from lack of retinal pigment (J:5470, J:5360, J:5378).
References
Original: J:34484 Detlefsen JA, "A new mutation in the house mouse" Am Naturalist 1921 Sep-Oct;55():469-73
All: 25 reference(s)

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