neoplasm
• decreased latency to develop UV-B induced skin tumors (13 weeks)
• after 20 weeks of UV-B exposure 90% of mice display multiple tumors on the dorsal skin and ears compared to no tumor development in wild-type mice
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integument
• following 5 and 10 weeks of UV-B exposure a incidence of epithelial hyperplasia (6 of 6 at 5 weeks) and dysplasia (3 of 3 at 10 weeks) is increased compared to heterozygous mice (1 of 6 and 0 of 3, respectively)
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