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Frame Overo and Lethal White Foal Syndrome: The EDNRB Gene
Frame overo is the only white-spotting pattern in horses that kills foals at a predictable Mendelian frequency. A horse heterozygous for the frame allele carries a distinctive white pattern with irregular borders, horizontal spread, and consistently dark legs; a horse homozygous for the same allele is born white, alive, and dead within days from an…