mortality/aging
• some mutant female embryos die by E13.5 - E14.0 and all are dead before birth similar to males hemizygous for Tg(HBB-Gata1)G4Phi
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hematopoietic system
• definitive erythropoiesis is impaired with at least 2-fold more primitive cells compared to definitive cells present at E14.0
• compound mutant females are more severely affect compared to males hemizygous for Tg(HBB-Gata1)G4Phi and females heterozygous Gata1tm1Phi and hemizygous for Tg(HBB-cre)1Phi
• at E14.0, fewer cells beyond the polychromatic erythroblast stage are seen are seen in the liver and in hanging drop assays erythroid progenitors fail to differentiate
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• most surviving mutant female embryos are anemic at E13.5 - E14.0 similar to males hemizygous for Tg(HBB-Gata1)G4Phi
• at E13.5, about 4% of the total circulating blood cells are immature erythroid precursors
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