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The mode of inheritance of macular degeneration was determined with 45 cynomolgus monkeys (18 females and 27 males) who were the offspring of one breeding male with typical macular degeneration. In the first generation, 27 offspring (10 females and 17 males) were born from mating between the macular degeneration-affected founder male and 5 normal female breeders. Among them, 18 monkeys (9 females and 9 males) were judged as having macular degeneration (affected). Next, the distribution of affected offspring was examined with 18 offspring who were born from 3 different mating pairs, normal vs normal, affected vs normal and affected vs affected, when they became 2 years old. All of the 9 monkeys (4 females and 5 males) obtained from the 2 pairs of normal vs normal were normal. On the other hand, 6 affected monkeys (3 females and 3 males) were detected in 8 offspring from the mating pair of affected vs normal, and the single offspring produced by the mating pair of affected vs affected was affected. These results showed that this degeneration must be early onset familial macular degeneration controlled by autosomal dominant gene(s).
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Suzuki, M.T., Terao, K. & Yoshikawa, Y. Familial early onset macular degeneration in cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). Primates 44, 291–294 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-002-0016-6
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