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==Model organisms==
Model organisms have been used in the study of KDM4C function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Kdm4ctm1a(KOMP)Wtsi{{cite web |url=http://www.knockoutmouse.org/martsearch/search?query=Kdm4c |title=International Knockout Mouse Consortium}}{{cite web |url=http://www.informatics.jax.org/searchtool/Search.do?query=MGI:4362199 |title=Mouse Genome Informatics}} was generated as part of the International Knockout Mouse Consortium program — a high-throughput mutagenesis project to generate and distribute animal models of disease to interested scientists.{{Cite journal| last1 = Skarnes |first1 =W. C.| doi = 10.1038/nature10163 | last2 = Rosen | first2 = B.| last3 = West | first3 = A. P.| last4 = Koutsourakis | first4 = M.| last5 = Bushell | first5 = W.| last6 = Iyer | first6 = V.| last7 = Mujica | first7 = A. O.| last8 = Thomas | first8 = M.| last9 = Harrow | first9 = J.| last10 = Cox | first10 = T.| last11 = Jackson | first11 = D.| last12 = Severin | first12 = J.| last13 = Biggs | first13 = P.| last14 = Fu | first14 = J.| last15 = Nefedov | first15 = M.| last16 = De Jong | first16 = P. J.| last17 = Stewart | first17 = A. F.| last18 = Bradley | first18 = A. | title = A conditional knockout resource for the genome-wide study of mouse gene function | journal = Nature | volume = 474 | issue = 7351 | pages = 337–342 | year = 2011 | pmid = 21677750 | pmc =3572410 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110615/full/474262a.html |title=Mouse library set to be knockout |author=Dolgin E |year=June 2011 |location=Nature 474: 262-263. doi:10.1038/474262a}}{{cite book |title=A mouse for all reasons |author=Collins FS, Rossant J, Wurst W |year=January 2007 |location=Cell 128(1): 9-13. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.12.018 PMID 17218247}}
Male and female animals underwent a standardized phenotypic screen to determine the effects of deletion.{{cite journal| author=van der Weyden L, White JK, Adams DJ, Logan DW| title=The mouse genetics toolkit: revealing function and mechanism. | journal=Genome Biol | year= 2011 | volume= 12 | issue= 6 | pages= 224 | pmid=21722353 | doi=10.1186/gb-2011-12-6-224 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=21722353 }} Twenty five tests were carried out on mutant mice and two significant abnormalities were observed. Homozygous mutant males had decreased haematocrit and haemoglobin levels, while animals of both sex displayed an increase in sebaceous gland size.
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