A mouse model of urofacial syndrome with dysfunctional urination.

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Urofacial syndrome (UFS) is an autosomal recessive disease with severe dysfunctional urination including urinary incontinence (UI). Biallelic mutations of HPSE2 are discovered from UFS patients, suggesting that HPSE2 is a candidate disease gene. Here, we show that deletion of Hpse2 is sufficient to cause the UFS-like phenotype in mice. Hpse2 knockout mutants display a distended bladder (megacystis) phenotype and...

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