pigmentation
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• mice exhibit normal tail skin, footpad and retina pigmentation
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• hair follicle melanosomes have reduced melanin and eumelanin content compared with melanosomes from wild-type mice
• melanosomes in hair follicles exhibit blebbing of the limiting membrane with vesicles between the pigmented compartment and the limiting membrane unlike melanosomes from wild-type mice
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• visible 5 days after birth
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integument
• reduced number of hairs
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• hair follicle melanosomes have reduced melanin and eumelanin content compared with melanosomes from wild-type mice
• melanosomes in hair follicles exhibit blebbing of the limiting membrane with vesicles between the pigmented compartment and the limiting membrane unlike melanosomes from wild-type mice
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• visible 5 days after birth
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