OMIA:002204-9378 : Leptin deficiency or dysfunction in Suncus murinus (house shrew) |
Categories: Homeostasis / metabolism phene
Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 614962 (trait)
Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown
Disease-related: yes
Species-specific description: Saga et al. (2019) reported an "Insertion of the three aa, VPQ, not seen in other mammals" in the house musk shrew leptin peptide, leading them to suggest "the possibility of [the house musk shrew] being a model of human lipodystrophy"
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Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2019). OMIA:002204-9378: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70
Reference
| 2019 | Saga, S., Sasaki, N., Arai, T. : |
| Molecular identification, characterization, and structure analysis of house musk shrew (<i>Suncus murinus</i>) leptin. J Adv Vet Anim Res 6:1-8, 2019. Pubmed reference: 31453164. DOI: 10.5455/javar.2019.f305. |
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- Created by Frank Nicholas on 05 Sep 2019