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A Japanese strain of mice has a peculiar, uncoordinated gait called waltzing, which is due to a recessive allele, v The dominant allele V causes mice to move in a coordinated fashion. A mouse geneticist has recently isolated another recessive mutation that causes uncoordinated movement. This mutation, called tango, could be an allele of the waltzing gene, or it could be a mutation in an entirely different gene. Propose a test to determine whether the waltzing and tango mutations are alleles, and

Ataxia is typically defined as the presence of abnormal, uncoordinated movements. This usage describes signs & symptoms without reference to specific diseases. An unsteady, staggering gait is described as an ataxic gait because walking is uncoordinated and appears to be 'not ordered | Jewels of Clinical Medicine