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Epistatic Interactions between Skin Tumor Modifier Loci in Interspecific (spretus/musculus) Backcross Mice¹

University of California–San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute, San Francisco, California 94115-0875 [J-H. M., J. P. d. K., T. M., A. B.], and Riken, Tsukuba Life Science Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan [H. N.]

The development of cancer is influenced both by exposure to environmental carcinogens and by the host genetic background. Epistatic interactions between genes are important in determining phenotype in plant and animal systems and are likely to be major contributors to cancer susceptibility in humans. Several tumor modifier loci have been identified from studies of mouse models of human cancer, and genetic interactions between modifier loci have been detected by genome scanning using recombinant congenic strains of mice (R. Fijneman et al., Nat. Genet., 14: 465–467, 1996; T. van Wezel et al., Nat. Genet., 14: 468–470, 1996; W. N. Frankel et al., Nat. Genet., 14, 371–373, 1996). We demonstrate here that strong genetic interactions between skin tumor modifier loci can be detected by hierarchical whole genome scanning of a complete interspecific backcross [outbred Mus spretus X Mus musculus (NIH/Ola)]. A locus on chromosome 7 (Skts1) showed a highly significant interaction with Skts5 on chromosome 12 (P < 10^-16), whereas additional significant interactions were detected between loci on chromosomes 4 and 5, and 16 and 15. Some of these quantitative trait loci and their interactions, in particular the Skts1-Skts5 interaction, were confirmed in two completely independent backcrosses using inbred spretus strains (SEG/Pas and SPRET/Ei) and NIH/Ola. These results, therefore, illustrate the general use of interspecific crosses between Mus musculus and Mus spretus for the detection of strong genetic interactions between tumor modifier genes.

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