Article
Genetic basis of neural tube defects: the mouse gene loop-tail maps to a region of chromosome 1 syntenic with human 1q21-q23.
Genomics - 10 Apr 1995
Stanier P, Henson J N, Eddleston J, Moore G E, Copp A J
Abstract excerpt
A genetic basis for neural tube defects (NTD) is rarely doubted, but the genes involved have not yet been identified. This is partly due to a lack of suitable families on which to perform linkage analysis. An alternative approach is to use the many mouse genes that cause NTD as a means of isolating their human homologues. Loop-tail (Lp) is a semidominant mouse gene that, in homozygous mutants, causes the severe...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mutation
