mortality/aging
• no viable homozygous pups are recovered at birth
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hematopoietic system
• common myeloid progenitors (CMPs) and granulocyte/macrophaged progenitors (GMPs) are undetectable in fetal liver at E14.5 while megakaryocyte/erythrocyte progenitors (MEPs) are relatively increased
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• number of fetal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in fetal liver is reduced 10-fold compared with wild-type at E14.5
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• fetal liver cells can home to the bone marrow when transplanted into lethally-irradiated hosts, but cannot maintain HSC pool or contribute to myelopoiesis or lymphopoiesis
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