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There are two published reports of BLM knock-out mice: one strategy used a single deletion allele and found that the homozygous null mutants are embryonic lethals [ 4]; the second strategy used two different deletion alleles and recovered full sized, fertile compound heterozygote mice with an elevated incidence of cancer [ 5].
All of these strains are homozygous mutant for Gly583Cys in sterolin-1, encoded by Abcg5 . This mutation is not present in rats that were not sitosterolemic, even though one of these was hypertensive (the GH rat).
Mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) were isolated from both wild type and homozygous mutant embryos.
In the present study, levels of hnRNP A2/B1 transcripts were reduced only about two fold in homozygous mutant cells, and the relative amount of the A2/B1 protein in hnRNP complexes was unaffected (G.
Of these, 6 individuals were homozygous CC (29%) and 15 were heterozygous TC (71%) (exon 17).