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A spontaneous mouse mutation, mesenchymal dysplasia (mes), is caused by a deletion of the most C-terminal cytoplasmic domain of patched (ptc).
Developmental biology - 1 Nov 2001
Makino S, Masuya H, Ishijima J, Yada Y, Shiroishi T
Abstract excerpt
A recessive mouse mutation, mesenchymal dysplasia (mes), which arose spontaneously on Chromosome 13, causes excess skin, increased body weight, and mild preaxial polydactyly. Fine gene mapping in this study indicated that mes is tightly linked to patched (ptc) that encodes a transmembrane receptor protein for Shh. Molecular characterization of the ptc gene of the mes mutant and an allelism test using a ptc...
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