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Live Birth in Sex-Reversed XY Mice Lacking the Nuclear Receptor Dax1.
Scientific reports - 3 Feb 2020
Fernandes-Freitas Isabel, Milona Alexandra, Murphy Kevin G, Dhillo Waljit S, Owen Bryn M
Abstract excerpt
The nuclear hormone receptor Dax1 functions during development as a testes-determining gene. However, the phenotype of male mice lacking Dax1 is strain-dependent due to the background-specific abundance of male-determining Sry gene-transcripts. We hypothesised that inter-individual variation in Sry mRNA-abundance would result in a spectrum of phenotypes even within-strain. We found that while all XY C57BL/6J mice...
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