behavior/neurological
• about 65% show severe ataxia within 2 weeks of age; ataxia appears sporadically
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nervous system
• cerebellum from some mutants is similar in size until P0, at which point it appears smaller and does not grow well after P7
• mutants with ataxia exhibit severely aberrant lobulation of the cerebellum
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• folia are not clearly observed at P0 in ataxic mutants
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• the external granule layer is not clearly observed at P0 in ataxic mutants
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• mutants with ataxia exhibit disorganization of the Purkinje cell layer
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• mutants with ataxia exhibit loss of the internal granule cell layer and reduced number of granule cells
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• mutants with ataxia exhibit a small cerebellum at P14
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