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Retroviral sequences located within an intron of the dilute gene alter dilute expression in a tissue-specific manner.
The EMBO journal - 15 May 1995
Seperack P K, Mercer J A, Strobel M C, Copeland N G, Jenkins N A
Abstract excerpt
The murine dilute coat color locus encodes an unconventional myosin heavy chain that is thought to be required for the elaboration or maintenance of dendrites or organelle transport in melanocytes and neurons. In previous studies we showed that the d mutation carried by many inbred strains of mice (now referred to as dilute viral, dv), is caused by the integration of an ecotropic murine leukemia virus (Emv-3)...
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