mortality/aging
• mice die around birth
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skeleton
• beginning between E18.5 and day 1, mice exhibit skeletal and bone defects
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• unlike in wild-type mice, the eighth rib is attached to the sixth sternebra
(J:100332)
• unlike in wild-type mice, the eighth rib is attached to the sixth sternebra
(J:125425)
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• in most mice the xiphoid process overgrown and splayed
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• 10 of 13 mice exhibit a T8 to T7 transformation compared to only 1 of 30 mice heterozygous for this allele or Rw
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• 6 of 13 mice exhibit a L1 to T14 transformation compared to only 1 of 30 mice heterozygous for this allele or Rw
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