Phenotypes

By cloning and sequencing a very likely comparative candidate gene (based on the homologous disorder in humans and mice), Pierce et al. (2001) identified a causal mutation as a "a cytidine to adenine transversion at position 156 of the Glra1 gene (156C>A). The 156A allele is predicted to substitute a termination codon for a tyrosine codon (Y24*) in exon 2 . . . This substitution is predicted to result in a prematurely truncated protein that...