mortality/aging
• embryonic lethality before E12.5
• supplementation of heterozygous breeding pairs with deoxyuridine (AIN93G diet) does not rescue the embryonic lethality of homozygotes
• heterozygous dams maintained on a control, folic acid deficient, or excess folic acid diet prior to mating with heterozygous males, show no differences in the average litter size and the average number of resorptions per litter among the different diets, indicating no effect of these diets on survival of homozygotes
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