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A new spontaneous mouse mutation in the Kcne1 gene.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Oct 2000
Letts V A, Valenzuela A, Dunbar C, Zheng Q Y, Johnson K R, Frankel W N
Abstract excerpt
A new mouse mutant, punk rocker (allele symbol Kcne1(pkr)), arose spontaneously on a C57BL/10J inbred strain background and is characterized by a distinctive head-tossing, circling, and ataxic phenotype. It is also profoundly and bilaterally deaf. The mutation resides in the Kcne1 gene on Chromosome (Chr) 16 and has been identified as a single base change within the coding region of the third exon. The C to T...
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