mortality/aging
• only 5 of 37 pups born survive past postnatal day 2
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• fewer than 15% of the born pups survive past postnatal day 2
• however, pups that survive the neonatal period are healthy, fertile and indistinguishable from wild-type controls
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• mice are born at a significantly lower than expected frequency from heterozygous mating pairs
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immune system
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• surviving mice show no differences in the development, maturation and differentiation of B-lymphocytes into antibody secreting cells or in immunoglobulin class-switch recombination relative to wild-type controls
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