Frequency of mosaicism points towards mutation-prone early cleavage cell divisions.
Chad Harland, Carole Charlier, Latifa Karim, Nadine Cambisano, Manon Deckers, Myriam Mni, Erik Mullaart, Wouter Coppieters, Michel Georges
Cattle pedigrees indicate up to ~30% of de novo mutations in male gametes and ~50% in female gametes arise during early cleavage divisions, leaving parental mosaicism and sibling sharing.
bioRxiv · Jun 29, 2017 · PreprintGenetics