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Clustering of genetically defined allele classes in the Caenorhabditis elegans DAF-2 insulin/IGF-1 receptor.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2008
Patel Dhaval S, Garza-Garcia Acely, Nanji Manoj, McElwee Joshua J, Ackerman Daniel, Driscoll Paul C, Gems David
Abstract excerpt
The DAF-2 insulin/IGF-1 receptor regulates development, metabolism, and aging in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. However, complex differences among daf-2 alleles complicate analysis of this gene. We have employed epistasis analysis, transcript profile analysis, mutant sequence analysis, and homology modeling of mutant receptors to understand this complexity. We define an allelic series of nonconditional...
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