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The flaky skin (fsn) mutation in mice: map location and description of the anemia.
Blood - 15 Oct 1995
Beamer W G, Pelsue S C, Shultz L D, Sundberg J P, Barker J E
Abstract excerpt
Flaky skin (gene symbol fsn) is an autosomal recessive mutation that causes pleiotropic effects of anemia, papulosquamous skin disorder, and gastric forestomach hyperplasia. In this report, we assign fsn to distal chromosome 17 and characterize the anemia. The decrease in hematocrit levels and red blood cell counts is significant and persists throughout life in fsn/fsn mice. There is compensatory enlargement of...
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