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Systematic phenotyping of mouse mutants

Comprehensive phenotypic screening of knockout mice highlights the pleiotropic functions of secreted and transmembrane proteins.

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Figure 1: The comprehensive screen performed by Tang et al.1 scored phenotypes of mice, each of which had one of 472 genes encoding membrane and secreted proteins knocked out, to reveal the involvement of the deleted gene in the function of different organ systems.

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Wurst, W., de Angelis, M. Systematic phenotyping of mouse mutants. Nat Biotechnol 28, 684–685 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0710-684

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