Hairless

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Hairless, also known as H, is a well-characterized Drosophila gene.[1]. Many mutations to hairless are embryonic lethal; however, there are several viable hairless mutants[2].

Hairless is involved in the Notch signaling pathway in Drosophila, acting as a suppressor of Notch signaling [3].

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  1. ^ "Entrez Gene: Hairless". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=Gene&Term=42445. 
  2. ^ "Fly Base: Hairless". http://flybase.org/reports/FBgn0001169.html. 
  3. ^ Maier D (2006). "Hairless: the ignored antagonist of the Notch signalling pathway". Hereditas 143. 

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