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Mouse models for Usher syndrome 1B.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2003
Lillo Concepcion, Kitamoto Junko, Liu Xinran, Quint Elizabeth, Steel Karen P, Williams David S
Abstract excerpt
Photoreceptor cell degeneration was not detected in any of the shaker1 alleles, except for a small but significant loss of photoreceptor cells found in Myo7a(4626SB/4626SB) mice that were also homozygous mutant for Cdh23v. Perhaps greater and/or faster photoreceptor cell loss that is dependent on mutant Myo7a can be effected by having additional mutant USH1 genes in the genetic background. In any case, it is...
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