mortality/aging
• mutants surviving to birth die within 2 days post-partum
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• significant number of mutants die by E12.5
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renal/urinary system
• kidneys of newborn mice have 64% the number of glomeruli found in wild-type
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small kidney
(
J:83430
)
• kidney hypoplasia
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• delayed kidney development resulting in abnormal ureteric branching morphogenesis
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• at E12.5, there is loss of ureteric tips and some ampullae have abnormal morphology
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