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Hillary T Ellis1, Michael G Tordoff, M Rockwell Parker
1Monell Chemical Senses Center, 3500 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
The Journal of Heredity
|October 27, 2012
Abstract:
The tf (tufted) locus is responsible for a classic phenotype of hair loss and regrowth in mice. It is a characteristic of the BTBR strain. Here, we use a combination of positional cloning methods and complementation mapping to identify Itpr3, the inositol triphosphate receptor type 3, as the gene responsible for the tf locus.
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