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Rescue of the mouse DDK syndrome by parent-of-origin-dependent modifiers.
Biology of reproduction - 1 Feb 2007
Ideraabdullah Folami Y, Kim Kuikwon, Pomp Daniel, Moran Jennifer L, Beier David, de Villena Fernando Pardo-Manuel
Abstract excerpt
When females of the DDK inbred mouse strain are mated to males of other strains, 90-100% of the resulting embryos die during early embryonic development. This DDK syndrome lethality results from incompatibility between an ooplasmic DDK factor and a non-DDK paternal gene, which map to closely linked loci on chromosome 11. It has been proposed that the expression of the gene that encodes the ooplasmic factor is...
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