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Desmoglein genes are up-regulated in the pk mutant mouse.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 4 Feb 2005
Luo Jingqing, Zhang Lin, Stenn Kurt, Prouty Stephen, Parimoo Satish
Abstract excerpt
Plucked (pk) is an autosomal recessive mouse mutation with a hair phenotype that arose spontaneously in the DBA/2J strain. Histological studies indicate that adult pk mutant mice lose truncal hair because of the scarring of follicles due to an apparent obstruction of the outward movement of the hair shaft within the follicular canal. We mapped the pk mutant phenotype to a 1.1cM region of chromosome 18 (between...
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