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.
anomaly in the amount of serine, 2-amino-3-hydroxypropanoic acid, a non-essential alpha-amino acid that is alanine substituted at position 3 by a hydroxy group; serine participates in the biosynthesis of purines and pyrimidines, is the precursor to glycine and cysteine and to numerous metabolites including sphingolipids and folate, and is often a hydrogen donor in enzymes, such as trypsin and chymotrypsin, playing a key role in their function as catalysts