mortality/aging
• 11 of 20 homozygotes die by P20 compared to 6 of 33 and 2 of 35 for heterozygous and wild-type mice, respectively
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growth/size/body
• on average homozygotes weigh less than wild-type mice and the number of severely affected mice is increased about 2-fold compared to Tnks2tm1Susm homozygotes
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cellular
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• telomere length and the incidence of chromosome aberrations in splenocytes and thymocytes is similar to wild-type
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