Article
Deletion of the c-kit protooncogene in the human developmental defect piebald trait.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Dec 1991
Fleischman R A, Saltman D L, Stastny V, Zneimer S
Abstract excerpt
The protooncogene c-kit is critical for development of hematopoietic stem cells, germ cells, and melanoblasts in the mouse. Homozygous mutations of this gene in the mouse cause anemia, infertility, and albinism, whereas heterozygous mutant mice usually exhibit only a white forehead blaze and depi...
Topics
- Animals
- Blotting, Southern
- Chemokine CXCL1
- Chemokines, CXC
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4
- DNA
- Female
- Genetic Carrier Screening
- Genotype
- Growth Substances
- Humans
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Interleukin-2
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Neoplasm Proteins