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A mutation in Sec15l1 causes anemia in hemoglobin deficit (hbd) mice.
Nature genetics - 1 Nov 2005
Lim Jackie E, Jin Ou, Bennett Carolyn, Morgan Kelly, Wang Fudi, Trenor Cameron C, Fleming Mark D, Andrews Nancy C
Abstract excerpt
Hemoglobin deficit (hbd) mice carry a spontaneous mutation that impairs erythroid iron assimilation but does not cause other defects. Normal delivery of iron to developing erythroid precursors is highly dependent on the transferrin cycle. Through genetic mapping and complementation experiments, we show that the hbd mutation is an in-frame deletion of a conserved exon of the mouse gene Sec15l1, encoding one of two...
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