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A mouse model of cardiac rhabdomyoma generated by loss of Tsc1 in ventricular myocytes.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Feb 2005
Meikle Lynsey, McMullen Julie R, Sherwood Megan C, Lader Alan S, Walker Victoria, Chan Jennifer A, Kwiatkowski David J
Abstract excerpt
Tuberous sclerosis is a hamartoma syndrome due to mutations in TSC1 or TSC2 in which cardiac rhabdomyomas are seen in approximately 60% of patients. These lesions have an unusual natural history as they are usually most prominent immediately after birth and spontaneously resolve in most cases. To develop a mouse model of this lesion, we used a conditional, floxed allele of Tsc1 and a modified myosin light chain...
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