Analysis Tools| Glossary Term | Complementation |
| Definition | The appearance of awild-typephenotype in an individual that is thehybrid offspring of twomutant individualshomozygous forrecessivemutations. Complementation shows that the two parental mutant individuals have mutantalleles of differentgenes, even if they are phenotypically similar. For example, a cross between two light gray mice(ash/ash andd/d) would produce a black mouse. |
Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO) | ||
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