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A novel null allele of mouse DSCAM survives to adulthood on an inbred C3H background with reduced phenotypic variability.
Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) - 1 Oct 2010
Fuerst Peter G, Harris Belinda S, Johnson Kenneth R, Burgess Robert W
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DSCAMs are cell adhesion molecules that play several important roles in neurodevelopment. Mouse alleles of Dscam identified to date do not survive on an inbred C57BL/6 background, complicating analysis of DSCAM-dependent developmental processes because of phenotypic variability related to the segregating backgrounds needed for postnatal survival. A novel spontaneous allele of Dscam, hereafter referred to as...
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