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Note that the DNA chosen from a single Wistar rat was heterozygous for almost all of these changes.
To test if genetic perturbations that cause obesity and diabetes can alter IOP, we compared mice that were genetically similar but were either homozygous or heterozygous for a leptin receptor mutation ( db ) that results in obesity and diabetes before 4 months of age on the C57BLKS/J strain background used [ 27 ] . IOP was modestly but significantly elevated in obese, diabetic homozygous mutants (14.
By 6 months of age, heterozygous mice develop tumors of the lymphoid system, colon, uterus, and adrenal medulla with very high penetrance, and tumors of the prostate and thyroid with lower penetrance.
Similar low levels of Pten were also detected in mammary ductal epithelial cells in Pten heterozygous mice that did not have a Wnt-1 transgene, suggesting that the Wnt-1 transgene does not influence Pten expression.
2%) inherited the ancestral haplotype defined as A*03-B*07, HFE C282Y; 46 were heterozygous and 12 were homozygous for the haplotype.