 Genes, Lethal
"Genes, Lethal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Genes whose loss of function or gain of function MUTATION leads to the death of the carrier prior to maturity. They may be essential genes (GENES, ESSENTIAL) required for viability, or genes which cause a block of function of an essential gene at a time when the essential gene function is required for viability.
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D005804
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.360.340.024.340.350
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Genes, Lethal" by people in Profiles.
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Lee Y, Kawagoe R, Sasai K, Li Y, Russell HR, Curran T, McKinnon PJ. Loss of suppressor-of-fused function promotes tumorigenesis. Oncogene. 2007 Sep 27; 26(44):6442-7.
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Vivian JL, Chen Y, Yee D, Schneider E, Magnuson T. An allelic series of mutations in Smad2 and Smad4 identified in a genotype-based screen of N-ethyl-N- nitrosourea-mutagenized mouse embryonic stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Nov 26; 99(24):15542-7.
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Xanthoudakis S, Smeyne RJ, Wallace JD, Curran T. The redox/DNA repair protein, Ref-1, is essential for early embryonic development in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Aug 20; 93(17):8919-23.
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