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Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of SMS function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Smstm1a(EUCOMM)Wtsi{{cite web |url=http://www.knockoutmouse.org/martsearch/search?query=Sms |title=International Knockout Mouse Consortium}}{{cite web |url=http://www.informatics.jax.org/searchtool/Search.do?query=MGI:4431547 |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 three tests were carried out on mutant mice and six significant abnormalities were observed. Hemizygous males were infertile and thus it was not possible to produce homozygous mutant female mice. The remaining tests were therefore carried out on heterozygous mutant females and hemizygous males. Both displayed decreased grip strength while the males also had decreased body weight, length, bone mineral content and atypical peripheral blood lymphocyte counts.
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