mortality/aging
• homozygotes are stillborn or die immediately after birth
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nervous system
• an intramuscular nerve forms and axons leave the nerve, but fail to stop and arborize, instead axons run parallel to myotubes for long distances
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• acetylcholine receptor (AChR) clusters are fewer in number, ~30% smaller in size and lower in density; two thirds of AChR clusters are not opposed by neurites and many clusters are outside the end plate band
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behavior/neurological
• neonates are never seen to move spontaneously
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respiratory system
• neonates do not inflate their lungs
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