Heterozygous loss of Six5 in mice is sufficient to cause ocular cataracts

Nature Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 110-114

  Sarkar, Partha S ^a   Appukuttan, Binoy ^b   Han, Jennifer ^a   Ito, Yoshihiro ^c   Ai, Cuiwei ^a   Tsai, Wenli ^a   Chai, Yang ^c   Stout, J Timothy ^b   Reddy, Sita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034103010     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75500     Document Type: Article

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