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Transcription factors Nkx3.1 and Nkx3.2 (Bapx1) play an overlapping role in sclerotomal development of the mouse.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Sept 2002
Herbrand Heike, Pabst Oliver, Hill Robert, Arnold Hans-Henning
Abstract excerpt
The homeobox containing transcription factors Nkx3.1 and Nkx3.2 (Bapx1) are transiently coexpressed in somites during early embryonic mouse development. Targeted disruption of the Nkx3.2 (Bapx1) gene in mice results in limited defects of chondrocranial bones and the axial skeleton, particularly pronounced in cervical vertebrae. In contrast, inactivation of the Nkx3.1 gene causes no apparent skeletal phenotype...
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