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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 similar mutants, stumpy (stm), pituitary dwarf (dw), spondylometaphyseal chondrodysplasia (smc), brachymorphic (bm), and...
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