mortality/aging
• no live homozygotes are born
• only abnormal or partially resorbed females at E11,5
• high frequency of resorptions at E12.5 and E13.5
• no live female embryos after E12.5
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cardiovascular system
• heart malformations in abnormal embryos at E10.5
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nervous system
• neural tube closure defects
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embryo
• delayed development observed at E9.5
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• observed at E9.5
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• neural tube closure defects
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• reduced number of somites seen at E9.5
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• large number of giasnt trophoblasts are seen in teratomas derived from homozygous female knockout ES cells
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