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MAMMALIAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.

Term:caudal vertebral fusion
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Accession:MP:0004619 term browser browse the term
Definition:the union of one or more caudal vertebrae into a single structure in species where this does not normally occur
Comment:There are usually 27-30 caudal vertebrae present in rodents and only 3-5 fused caudal vertebrae in human.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: caudal vertebral ankylosis;   fused caudal vertebrae



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  mammalian phenotype 5419
    limbs/digits/tail phenotype 76
      abnormal tail morphology 13
        abnormal caudal vertebrae morphology 0
          caudal vertebral fusion 0
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  mammalian phenotype 5419
    skeleton phenotype 434
      abnormal skeleton morphology 339
        abnormal axial skeleton morphology 43
          abnormal vertebral column morphology 11
            abnormal vertebrae morphology 8
              abnormal caudal vertebrae morphology 0
                caudal vertebral fusion 0
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