mortality/aging
• on a hybrid 129X1/SvJ x C57BL/6 background, homozygotes are obtained at a slightly lower frequency at E8.5-E10.5; only dead or degenerated mutant embryos are found after E9.5
• Background Sensitivity: embryonic survival is extended to E10.0 after three backcrossings to the CD1 outbred strain
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embryo
• at E9.0, mutant embryos are too tiny and poorly differentiated to undergo further analysis
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• at E9.0, mutant embryos are severely reduced relative to wild-type embryos
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growth/size/body
• at E9.0, mutant embryos are severely reduced relative to wild-type embryos
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cellular
• mutant MEFs fail to proliferate well under conventional culture conditions, suggesting a defective autonomous cell growth program
• in culture, fibroblastoid cells recovered from E9.0 mutant embryos display attenuated functions of a wide variety of transcriptional activators on ectopic reporters
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