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Dominant lethality of the mouse skeletal mutation tail-short (Ts) is determined by the Ts allele from mating partners.
Genomics - 1 May 1998
Ishijima J, Yasui H, Morishima M, Shiroishi T
Abstract excerpt
Mice with the Tail-short (Ts) mutation have a short, kinky tail and numerous skeletal abnormalities, including a homeotic anteroposterior patterning problem involving the axial skeleton. The viability of Ts heterozygotes varies dramatically, depending on the mouse strain crossed with the mutant strain. At the extremes, the heterozygotes are viable or lethal prenatally. In this study, we found that laboratory...
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