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BOR - Papers in Press, published online ahead of print April 16, 2003.
Biol Reprod 2003, 10.1095/biolreprod.103.016147
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BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION 69, 430–436 (2003)
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.016147
© 2003 by the Society for the Study of Reproduction, Inc.

Reproductive Technology

Hierarchical Phenotypic and Epigenetic Variation in Cloned Swine1

Greg S. Archer3,4, Scott Dindot3,5, Ted H. Friend4, Shawn Walker5, Gretchen Zaunbrecher5, Bruce Lawhorn6, and Jorge A. Piedrahita2,3,4

Department of Animal Sciences,4 Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health,5 Department of Large Animal Medicine,6 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843

Cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer can result in the birth of animals with phenotypic and gene expression abnormalities. We compared adult cloned pigs and adult pigs from naturally bred control females using a series of physiological and genetic parameters, including detailed methylation profiles of selected genomic regions. Phenotypic and genetic analyses indicated that there are two classes of traits, one in which the cloned pigs have less variation than controls and another characterized by variation that is equally high in cloned and control pigs. Although cloning creates animals within the normal phenotypic range, it increases the variability associated with some traits. This finding is contrary to the expectation that cloning can be used to reduce the size of groups involved in animal experimentation and to reproduce an animal, including a pet, with a homogenous set of desired traits.

1 This research was supported by NIH grant HL51587 to J.P. and a Texas A&M grant to T.F.

2 Correspondence: Jorge A. Piedrahita, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606. FAX: 919 515 4237; jorge_piedrahita{at}ncsu.edu

3 These authors contributed equally to this work






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