title: A new mutant at the Dystrophia muscularis (dy) locus in the SM strain of mice.
abstract: Muscular dystrophy was found in the SM strain of mice. This defect was shown to be caused by a single autosomal recessive gene allelic with the genes at the dy locus. The dystrophic SM mice may provide a useful animal model for human muscular dystrophy, because SM strain has been selected for small body size and carries rare alleles at several loci.
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D051379:Mice; D008817:Mice, Mutant Strains / Q000235:genetics*; D009137:Muscular Dystrophy, Animal / Q000235:genetics*; D009154:Mutation