mortality/aging
• less than 20% of mice survive the postnatal period
• however, removal of competing wild-type and female heterozygous littermates increases survival to 80%
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growth/size/body
• despite normal birth weights, mice exhibit a 50% reduction in body weight gain compared to wild-type mice regardless of strain background or fostering with wild-type mothers
• however, between 3 and 5 weeks of age growth rates are normal
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• mice exhibit decreased body length compared to wild-type mice but this difference becomes less significant after weaning
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