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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 14.
Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2016 Jan 7;164(0):45–56. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.007

Figure 6. Gdf6 Mutant Mice Have Altered Flat Bones and Shorter Toes.

Figure 6

(A) Average width and length of skull bones in wild type (n=12) and Gdf6−/− (n=16) mutant mice. Dimensions were measured for parietal bone width (PW), the combined length of the frontal and parietal bones (PL), nasal bone length (NL), nasal bone width (NW), and the relative length and width of the skulls.

(B) Gdf6 mutant mice have shorter hindlimb digits. The lengths of the sums of the phalanges of digit I, digit III, and digit V from wild type (n=8) and Gdf6−/− (n=9) mice were normalized to femur length and averaged for the two hindlimbs. We used two sample t-tests to examine the significance of skull plate (A) and digits size (B) differences between the wild type and Gdf6−/− mice, and p-values are shown. Error bars represent SEM.