Hayakawa J, Tsuji S
Lab Anim. 1985 Jan;19(1):1-2. doi: 10.1258/002367785780890677.
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.
在小鼠的SM品系中发现了肌肉萎缩症。已证明这种缺陷是由一个常染色体隐性基因引起的,该基因与dy位点的基因等位。患有肌肉萎缩症的SM小鼠可能为人类肌肉萎缩症提供一个有用的动物模型,因为SM品系已因体型小而被选育,并且在几个位点携带稀有等位基因。