mortality/aging
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• number of homozygous females (~33%) is lower than expected (~50%), possibly indicating a detrimental effect of the mutant allele, expressed early in development
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homeostasis/metabolism
• mice have very low cytoplasmic malic enzyme activity (<0.10) compared to wild-type homozygous for the DBA/2J (variant a) form (1.10) or the C57BL/6J (variant b) form (0.50)
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