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Serrate2 is disrupted in the mouse limb-development mutant syndactylism.
Nature - 16 Oct 1997
Sidow A, Bulotsky M S, Kerrebrock A W, Bronson R T, Daly M J, Reeve M P, Hawkins T L, Birren B W, Jaenisch R, Lander E S
Abstract excerpt
The mouse syndactylism (sm) mutation impairs some of the earliest aspects of limb development and leads to subsequent abnormalities in digit formation. In sm homozygotes, the apical ectodermal ridge (AER) is hyperplastic by embryonic day 10.5, leading to abnormal dorsoventral thickening of the limb bud, subsequent merging of the skeletal condensations that give rise to cartilage and bone in the digits, and...
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