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Blood coagulation factor X deficiency causes partial embryonic lethality and fatal neonatal bleeding in mice.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 Feb 2000
Dewerchin M, Liang Z, Moons L, Carmeliet P, Castellino F J, Collen D, Rosen E D
Abstract excerpt
Mice with a total deficiency in blood coagulation Factor X (FX) were generated by targeted replacement of an 18-kb fragment of the FX gene, comprising all exons encoding the mature FX protein, with a neo(r) cassette. The genotype distribution among the offspring from heterozygous breeding pairs suggested that FX deficiency resulted in partial embryonic lethality, with approximately one-third of the FX-/- embryos...
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