Article
Chubby: a new autosomal recessive skeletal mutation producing dwarfism in the mouse.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Wikström B, Wallace M E, Hjerpe A, Engfeldt B
Abstract excerpt
The chubby (cby) mutant is a previously undescribed skeletal mutation in the mouse. Breeding experiments showed that cby is a recessive mutant with complete viability, full penetrance and fertility in both sexes. Tests for allelism showed that the cby mutant is genetically unlike the somewhat sim...
Topics
- Animals
- Bone and Bones
- Dwarfism
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Male
- Mice
- Muridae
- Mutation
- Phenotype