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SPAG7 deletion causes intrauterine growth restriction, resulting in adulthood obesity and metabolic...

SPAG7 deletion causes intrauterine growth restriction, resulting in adulthood obesity and metabolic...

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SPAG7 deletion causes intrauterine growth restriction, resulting in adulthood obesity and metabolic dysfunction

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SPAG7 deletion causes intrauterine growth restriction, resulting in adulthood obesity and metabolic dysfunction

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Journal title

bioRxiv, 2023-11

Language

English

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Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Contents

From a forward mutagenetic screen to discover mutations associated with obesity, we identified mutations in the spag7 gene linked to metabolic dysfunction in mice. Here we show that SPAG7 KO mice are born smaller and develop obesity and glucose intolerance in adulthood. This obesity does not stem from hyperphagia, but a decrease in energy expenditu...

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SPAG7 deletion causes intrauterine growth restriction, resulting in adulthood obesity and metabolic dysfunction

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2886741082

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2886741082

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E-ISSN

2692-8205

DOI

10.1101/2023.09.05.555087