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Phenotypes associated with this allele
Allele Symbol
Allele Name
Allele ID
Shank3tm2Gfng
targeted mutation 2, Guoping Feng
MGI:4949738
Summary 4 genotypes
Jump to Allelic Composition Genetic Background Genotype ID
hm1
Shank3tm2Gfng/Shank3tm2Gfng B6.129-Shank3tm2Gfng/J MGI:6324046
hm2
Shank3tm2Gfng/Shank3tm2Gfng involves: 129S1/Sv * 129X1/SvJ MGI:6715315
hm3
Shank3tm2Gfng/Shank3tm2Gfng involves: 129S1/Sv * 129X1/SvJ * C57BL/6 MGI:4949761
ht4
Shank3tm2Gfng/Shank3+ B6.129-Shank3tm2Gfng/J MGI:6324047


Genotype
MGI:6324046
hm1
Allelic
Composition
Shank3tm2Gfng/Shank3tm2Gfng
Genetic
Background
B6.129-Shank3tm2Gfng/J
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Mouse lines carrying:
Shank3tm2Gfng mutation (1 available); any Shank3 mutation (85 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype
behavior/neurological
• mice are incapable of completing pre-training tasks for the touchscreen pairwise discrimination test, showing a trend towards completing fewer trials in stage 1, significantly fewer trials is stage 2, and require more days to reach criterion in stage 3
• mice show reduced activity in the open field




Genotype
MGI:6715315
hm2
Allelic
Composition
Shank3tm2Gfng/Shank3tm2Gfng
Genetic
Background
involves: 129S1/Sv * 129X1/SvJ
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Mouse lines carrying:
Shank3tm2Gfng mutation (1 available); any Shank3 mutation (85 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype
nervous system
• hippocampal neurons exhibit fewer mushroom-like spines
• hippocampal neurons exhibit a greater number of immature thin spines
• marker analysis indicates a change in postsynaptic density architecture
• pyramidal-like hippocampal neurons show reduced miniature excitatory postsynaptic currents (mEPSCs) frequency, without changes in mEPSC amplitude




Genotype
MGI:4949761
hm3
Allelic
Composition
Shank3tm2Gfng/Shank3tm2Gfng
Genetic
Background
involves: 129S1/Sv * 129X1/SvJ * C57BL/6
Find Mice Using the International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR)
Mouse lines carrying:
Shank3tm2Gfng mutation (1 available); any Shank3 mutation (85 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype
behavior/neurological
N
• mice exhibit normal learning and memory in a Morris water maze
• mice exhibit less time exploring the open arms of an elevated plus maze compared with wild-type mice
• mice exhibit increased latency to crossing a bright area in a light-dark emergence test compared with wild-type mice
• however, mice exhibit normal thigmotaxis in an open field and time spent on either side of the box in the light-dark emergence test
• resulting in skin lesions
• mice prefer to interact with an empty cage rather than a social partner unlike wild-type mice
• mice spend less time interacting with a social partner than wild-type mice
• mice fail to spend more time with a novel social partner unlike wild-type mice
• social withdrawal is not alleviated by cross fostering pups with wild-type dams
• mice occasionally exhibit handling-induced seizures unlike wild-type mice
• however, no spontaneous seizures are observed

nervous system
• mice occasionally exhibit handling-induced seizures unlike wild-type mice
• however, no spontaneous seizures are observed
• mice exhibit striatal hypertrophy compared with wild-type mice
• medium spiny neurons exhibit neuronal hypertrophy with increased complexity of dendritic arborization, total dendritic length, and surface area compared to in wild-type mice
• spine density is reduced compared to in wild-type mice
• the neck width of medium spiny neuron spines is slightly larger than in wild-type mice
• mice exhibit abnormal post-synaptic density composition compared to in wild-type mice
• reduced frequency and peak amplitude in medium spiny neurons
• however, miniature excitatory postsynaptic current frequency and amplitude in the hippocampal CA1 sub-region are normal

integument
• at 3 to 6 months of age, mice exhibit pronounced skin lesions with varying degrees of penetrance due to excessive self-grooming unlike wild-type mice

Mouse Models of Human Disease
DO ID OMIM ID(s) Ref(s)
autism spectrum disorder DOID:0060041 J:171113




Genotype
MGI:6324047
ht4
Allelic
Composition
Shank3tm2Gfng/Shank3+
Genetic
Background
B6.129-Shank3tm2Gfng/J
Find Mice Using the International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR)
Mouse lines carrying:
Shank3tm2Gfng mutation (1 available); any Shank3 mutation (85 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype
behavior/neurological
• in the touchscreen pairwise discrimination task, mice are slower to reach criterion and exhibit trends toward making more errors (first trial errors) and more correction errors than wild-type mice
• however, mice exhibit normal open field activity and sociability in the three chamber test





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last database update
12/10/2024
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