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Characterization of striatal phenotypes in heterozygous Disc1 mutant mice, a model of haploinsufficiency.
The Journal of comparative neurology - 1 May 2020
Baskaran Rathinasamy, Lai Chuan-Ching, Li Wai-Yu, Tuan Li-Heng, Wang Chia-Chuan, Lee Lukas J-H, Liu Chih-Min, Hwu Hai-Gwo, Lee Li-Jen
Abstract excerpt
Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is a susceptibility gene for several psychiatric illnesses. To study the pathogenesis of these disorders, we generated Disc1 mutant mice by introducing the 129S6/SvEv 25-bp deletion Disc1 variants into the C57BL/6J strain. In this study, we used heterozygous Disc1 mutant (Het) mice to evaluate the DISC1 haploinsufficiency model of schizophrenia. No changes in locomotor...
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