Phenotype Image Detail

Image

Caption

thnh/thnh mouse, upper right; littermate control, lower left. Thin hair mutant mice have a sparse coat discernible by two weeks of age. By three weeks of age, the pelt has fewer zigzag hairs than normal andby four weeks of age, the skin follicles are somewhat dilated with degeneration of the deepest portions of the anagen hair follicles. Hair fragments from degenerating follicles are found in the connective tissue and granulomatous inflammation develops.

Copyright

Photo courtesy of Mouse Mutant Resource at The Jackson Laboratory. https://www.jax.org/research-and-faculty/tools/mouse-mutant-resource J:110244

Associated Alleles

Symbol	Name
thnh	thin hair

Associated Genotypes

Allelic Composition	Genetic Background
thnh/thnh	NOD.Cg-H2^b thnh/J