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Strain-specific modification of lethality in fucose-deficient mice.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Feb 2003
Becker Daniel J, Myers Jay T, Ruff Melissa M, Smith Peter L, Gillespie Brenda W, Ginsburg David W, Lowe John B
Abstract excerpt
The FX locus encodes an essential enzyme in the de novo pathway of GDP-fucose biosynthesis. Mice homozygous for a targeted mutation of the FX gene manifest a host of pleiotropic abnormalities including a lethal phenotype that is almost completely penetrant in heterozygous intercrosses on a mixed genetic background. Here we have investigated genetic suppression of FX-mediated lethality. Reduced recovery of...
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