The Attractin Gene

This week, I am focusing intensely on analyzing the data I have obtained throughout experimentation. I returned to the laboratory this morning to find numerous sequences for me to clean and analyze. Thus, I spent most of my day on the computer, searching for polymorphisms (regions of variation) in introns 4, 17, and 23of the attractin gene. I worked with so many sequences that I could remember the order of some bases within the introns and the IUPAC codes (codes for multiple bases occurring simultaneously in a gene) by the end of the day. I further entered all regions of variance into an excel spreadsheet to ease the analysis process. I am looking forward to the final step of the experiment, as I will finally analyze the association of variation in the studied regions of the attractin gene to variation in coat color using statistical analysis.