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Whiskers amiss, a new vibrissae and hair mutation near the Krt1 cluster on mouse chromosome 11.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Apr 2000
Taylor L A, Harris M J, Juriloff D M
Abstract excerpt
Whiskers amiss (wam) is a new spontaneous recessive mutation in the SELH/Bc strain of mice that causes a phenotype of askew, sometimes kinked or curled, breakable whiskers and disheveled-appearing body hair, apparently owing to disoriented guard hairs. Heterozygotes on three genetic backgrounds are indistinguishable from normal. Using informative SSLPs in the F2 generation after crosses to two normal strains, we...
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