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Effects of an Rb mutation in the mouse

Nature volume 359, pages 295–300 (1992)Cite this article

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The retinoblastoma gene is mutated in several types of human cancer and is the best characterized of the tumour-suppressor genes. A mouse strain has been constructed in which one allele of Rb is disrupted. These heterozygous animals are not predisposed to retinoblastoma, but some display pituitary tumours arising from cells in which the wild-type Rb allele is absent. Embryos homozygous for the mutation die between days 14 and 15 of gestation, exhibiting neuronal cell death and defective erythropoiesis.

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  1. Tyler Jacks & Earlene M. Schmitt

    Present address: Center for Cancer Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

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    Tyler Jacks, Amin Fazeli, Earlene M. Schmitt, Margaret A. Goodell & Robert A. Weinberg

  2. Department of Pathology, Tufts University Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111, USA

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Jacks, T., Fazeli, A., Schmitt, E. et al. Effects of an Rb mutation in the mouse. Nature 359, 295–300 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/359295a0

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