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Lipodystrophy in the fld mouse results from mutation of a new gene encoding a nuclear protein, lipin.
Nature genetics - 1 Jan 2001
Péterfy M, Phan J, Xu P, Reue K
Abstract excerpt
Mice carrying mutations in the fatty liver dystrophy (fld) gene have features of human lipodystrophy, a genetically heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by loss of body fat, fatty liver, hypertriglyceridemia and insulin resistance. Through positional cloning, we have isolated the gene responsible and characterized two independent mutant alleles, fld and fld(2J). The gene (Lpin1) encodes a novel nuclear...
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