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IN a stock of mice kept by one of us (J. H. B.) there has arisen a mutant gene which in the homozygous condition causes the eyelids to be open at birth. A similar character has been observed in mice by others1,2; but this seems to be the first occasion on which it has been found to have a simple genetical basis.
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BENNETT, J., GRESHAM, G. A Gene for Eyelids Open at Birth in the House Mouse. Nature 178, 272–273 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178272b0
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