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Sparse and wavy hair: a new model for hypoplasia of hair follicle and mammary glands on rat chromosome 17.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Kuramoto T, Morimura K, Nomoto T, Namiki C, Hamada S, Fukushima S, Sugimura T, Serikawa T, Ushijima T
Abstract excerpt
Mutant animals in the skin and hair have been used to identify important genes in biomedical research. We describe a new mutant rat, sparse and wavy hair (swh), that spontaneously arose in a colony of inbred WTC rats. The mutant phenotype was characterized by sparse and wavy hair, which was most prominent at age 3-4 weeks, and was inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. The swh/swh rats showed impaired gain...
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