mortality/aging
• no homozygotes are observed after birth: genotyping of embryos on E9.5, 12.5 and 15.5 showed no homozygotes and only 3/33 E3.5 blastocysts genotyped as Pmm2-null, while E2.5 fertilized eggs, 3/33 were homozygous compared to 16 wild-type and 14 heterozygous eggs
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cellular
• when heterozygous males are bred with wild-type females, 52% of offspring are wild-type and 48% are heterozygous; however when the female is heterozygous, there is a 4:1 ratio of wild-type to heterozygotes indicating impairment in maternal transmission of Pmm2tm1Cthl
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