behavior/neurological
• mutants fail to discriminate between two similar environments differentiated by the inclusion or absence of a shock
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• 21 hours after interaction with the demonstrator mouse mutants fail to show a preference for the cued food
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• in a Morris water maze mutants take longer to find the platform and when the platform is removed cross its former location less frequently
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growth/size/body
• by 8 weeks of age mutants males and females weigh 23% and 10% less, respectively, than their sex-matched wild-type littermates
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