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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Mami Uemura
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-33106 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Development (Cambridge, England) 20130201 3
Congenital biliary atresia is an incurable disease of newborn infants, of unknown genetic causes, that results in congenital deformation of the gallbladder and biliary duct system. Here, we show that during mouse organogenesis, insufficient SOX17 expression in the gallbladder and bile duct epithelia results in congenital biliary atresia and subsequent acute 'embryonic hepatitis', leading to perinatal death in ~95% of the Sox17 heterozygote neonates in C57BL/6 (B6) background mice. During gallbla ...[more]