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Targeted disruption of the Huntington's disease gene results in embryonic lethality and behavioral and morphological changes in heterozygotes.
Cell - 2 Jun 1995
Nasir J, Floresco S B, O'Kusky J R, Diewert V M, Richman J M, Zeisler J, Borowski A, Marth J D, Phillips A G, Hayden M R
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is an incurable neuropsychiatric disease associated with CAG repeat expansion within a widely expressed gene that causes selective neuronal death. To understand its normal function, we have created a targeted disruption in exon 5 of Hdh (Hdhex5), the murine homolog of the HD gene. Homozygotes die before embryonic day 8.5, initiate gastrulation, but do not proceed to the formation of...
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