mortality/aging
• underrepresented at birth, and 50% of the remaining mice die within the first postnatal day
• ~24% of total dKO mice survived to adulthood
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• analysis of offspring from timed matings of heterozygous mutant mice revealed dKO mutant embryos between embryonic day 10.5 (E10.5) and E17.5 at a frequency slightly less than Mendelian with occasional dead dKO embryos
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cardiovascular system
muscle
cellular
growth/size/body