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Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of UBA2 function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Uba2tm1a(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 on mutant mice and four significant abnormalities were observed. No homozygous mutant embryos were identified during gestation, and therefore none survived until weaning. The remaining tests were carried out on heterozygous mutant adult mice. Females were found to have a decreased body length by DEXA, while animals of both sex had a decreased number of lumbar and sacral vertebrae in X-rays.