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Symbol
Name
ID
Sox2
SRY (sex determining region Y)-box 2
MGI:98364
Phenotype annotations related to nervous system
Darker colors indicate more annotations
Human Phenotypes
Microcephaly
Anterior pituitary hypoplasia
Optic nerve hypoplasia
Spastic diplegia
Spastic tetraplegia
Hydrocephalus
Agenesis of corpus callosum
Hypoplasia of the corpus callosum
Hypothalamic hamartoma
Holoprosencephaly
Intellectual disability
Global developmental delay
Specific learning disability
Disease(s) Associated with SOX2
syndromic microphthalmia 3

Mouse Phenotypes
nonconvulsive seizures
abnormal neuron differentiation
abnormal radial glial cell morphology
abnormal neuronal precursor proliferation
abnormal pituitary gland morphology
abnormal adenohypophysis development
bifurcated Rathke's pouch
decreased somatotroph cell number
small adenohypophysis
abnormal cochlear hair cell morphology
absent vestibular hair cells
decreased cochlear nerve compound action potential
abnormal nervous system morphology
abnormal brain morphology
abnormal hippocampus development
enlarged lateral ventricles
enlarged third ventricle
abnormal corpus callosum morphology
decreased corpus callosum size
abnormal thalamus morphology
abnormal dentate gyrus morphology
absent dentate gyrus
loss of hippocampal neurons
small hippocampus
abnormal cerebral cortex morphology
abnormal ependyma morphology
motor neuron degeneration
abnormal optic disk morphology
optic nerve hypoplasia
abnormal nervous system physiology
Availability Mouse Genotype
Sox2ysb/Sox2ysb
Sox2em1(IMPC)Mbp/Sox2+
Sox2tm1Lpev/Sox2tm4Lpev
Sox2tm1Rlb/Sox2+
Sox2tm2Skn/Sox2tm3Skn
Sox2tm1Okud/Sox2tm1Okud
Tg(Nes-cre)1Sasa/?  (conditional)
Sox2tm4.1Skn/Sox2tm4.1Skn
Tg(Sox2-cre/ERT2)1Skn/0  (conditional)
Sox2tm2Skn/Sox2tm4.1Skn
Tg(Nes-cre)1Kln/0  (conditional)

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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO)
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last database update
04/23/2024
MGI 6.23
The Jackson Laboratory