Medical Definition of Pax gene
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Mouse genes that contain a DNA binding domain similar to one in the paired genes of Drosophila.
8 Pax genes have been identified and most of them are expressed in the nervous system during development. A number of mouse mutations have been found to map to Pax genes. For example: undulated, which causes distortions of the vertebral column and sternum results from a point mutations of PAX 1 and is expressed in the sclerotome.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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