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Partial rescue of neonatal lethality of Dhcr7 null mice by a nestin promoter-driven DHCR7 transgene expression.
Brain research. Developmental brain research - 21 Apr 2005
Yu Hongwei, Wessels Andy, Tint G Stephen, Patel Shailendra B
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In humans, genetic disorders affecting post-squalene cholesterol biosynthesis result in a variety of dysmorphology syndromes. One key feature of all of these is the presence of mental retardation and another is the lack of a robust genotype-phenotype correlation. Knockout mice defective in the 3beta hydroxysterol Delta7 reductase (Dhcr7), a model for the most common of such disorders in humans, the...
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