Article
The cleft lip and palate defects in Dancer mutant mice result from gain of function of the Tbx10 gene.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 May 2004
Bush Jeffrey O, Lan Yu, Jiang Rulang
Abstract excerpt
Cleft lip and palate (CL/P) is a common disfiguring birth defect with complex, poorly understood etiology. Mice carrying a spontaneous mutation, Dancer (Dc), exhibit CL/P in homozygotes and show significantly increased susceptibility to CL/P in heterozygotes [Deol, M. S. & Lane, P. W. (1966) J. Embryol. Exp. Morphol. 16, 543-558 and Trasler, D. G., Kemp, D. & Trasler, T. A. (1984) Teratology 29, 101-104],...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cleft Lip
- Cleft Palate
- Introns
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- T-Box Domain Proteins
