mortality/aging
• only about 1% newborn are homozygous when heterozygous are crossed
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• most of homozygous newborns die within their first 2 weeks
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• homozygous newborns rarely survive up to 1 month
• Background Sensitivity: survival of homozygous mice in a mixed 129/ICR background survive longer then C57BL/6 or BALB/c background, however author did not show any data
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growth/size/body
• homozygous mutant neonates weighed slightly less than their littermates at birth
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• after birth homozygous mouse shows a severe retardation in weight gain
• less than 50% of the weight of there wild type or heterozygous siblings at postnatal day 20
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cellular
binucleate
(
J:168166
)
• early passage of the MEF derived from E13.5 homozygous embryo exhibit increased binuclear phenotype
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aneuploidy
(
J:168166
)
• higher frequency of aneuploidy in homozygous embryo derived MEF
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polyploidy
(
J:168166
)
• 4N tetraploidy cell population are elevated in homozygous embryo derived MEF
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• homozygous embryo derived MEF show disturbed frequency of primary cilia from multiple basal bodies
• do not exhibit metaphase arrest
• centrosome duplication is not affected
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• chromosomal counts of colcemid-arrested metaphase spreads of MEF derived from homozygous embryo shows increased chromosome content
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