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The mouse pink-eyed dilution gene: association with human Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 21 Aug 1992
Gardner J M, Nakatsu Y, Gondo Y, Lee S, Lyon M F, King R A, Brilliant M H
Abstract excerpt
Complementary DNA clones from the pink-eyed dilution (p) locus of mouse chromosome 7 were isolated from murine melanoma and melanocyte libraries. The transcript from this gene is missing or altered in six independent mutant alleles of the p locus, suggesting that disruption of this gene results in the hypopigmentation phenotype that defines mutant p alleles. Characterization of the human homolog revealed that it...
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