Wnt9b is the mutated gene involved in multifactorial nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in A/WySn mice, as confirmed by a genetic complementation test

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 574-579

  Juriloff, Diana M ^a   Harris, Muriel J ^a   McMahon, Andrew P ^b   Carroll, Thomas J ^b,c   Lidral, Andrew C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defect; Cleft lip; Cleft palate; Gene; Multifactorial

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CLF1 GENE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LETHALITY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; WNT9B GENE;

ANIMALS; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; SEX RATIO; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 33749045017     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20302     Document Type: Article

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