Article
The role of a single formin isoform in the limb and renal phenotypes of limb deformity.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jun 1997
Wynshaw-Boris A, Ryan G, Deng C X, Chan D C, Jackson-Grusby L, Larson D, Dunmore J H, Leder P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mutations of the murine limb deformity (ld) locus are responsible for a pleiotropic phenotype of completely penetrant limb malformations and incompletely penetrant renal agenesis and/or dysgenesis. The ld locus encodes a complex family of mRNA and protein isoforms. MATERIALS AND METHO...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Alleles
- Alternative Splicing
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA, Complementary
- Fetal Proteins
- Formins
- Gene Targeting
- In Situ Hybridization
- Kidney
- Limb Deformities, Congenital
