mortality/aging
• no homozygous mice are born; developmental arrest at ~E5.5 is observed
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embryo
• development of homozygous embryos appears to have arrested before E7.5 (at ~E5.5)
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• at E5.5, homozygous embryos are slightly morphologically misshapen compared to wild-type and heterozygous littermates
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cellular
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• DNA methylation in imprinted genes appears to be maintained with Eif2c2-deficiency
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