mortality/aging
• >66% of homozygotes die before weaning, mostly between P15 and P20
• preweaning mortality can be bypassed by initiating hand-feeding at P2 with homozygotes surviving to adulthood
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growth/size/body
• mutant pups appear runted relative to wild-type pups
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• homozygotes exhibit a slower weight gain in the first month of life relative to wild-type controls
• a period of no weight gain is observed from P15 to P20
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nervous system
N |
• surprisingly, surviving homozygotes display no gross defects in brain morphology at 3 months of age
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vision/eye
N |
• surprisingly, surviving homozygotes display no gross defects in retina morphology at 3 months of age
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