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Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of IKBKAP function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Ikbkaptm1a(KOMP)Wtsi was generated as part of the International Knockout Mouse Consortium program — a high-throughput mutagenesis project to generate and distribute animal models of disease to interested scientists — at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Male and female animals underwent a standardized phenotypic screen to determine the effects of deletion.

Twenty five tests were carried out and two phenotypes were reported. No homozygous mutant embryos were identified during gestation, and in a seperate study none survived until weaning. The remaining tests were carried out on heterozygous mutant adult mice; no significant abnormalities were observed in these animals.