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Type  MGI:General Description  in social investigation of an anesthetized mouse target, mutants spend much less time in contact with the target compared to wild-type mice, however there is no difference in the latency to first contact or in the number of contacts with the target in a social interaction task in which mice are presented with an unfamiliar juvenile mouse, mutants show a reduction in social interaction time on the sociability test, no difference is seen in the amount of time that mutants spend in the two chambers, however mutants spend less time sniffing a stranger 1 mouse cage than the wild-type mice in the subsequent social novelty preference test, mutants spend similar amount of time in the two chambers, however mutants spend less time in sniffing the stranger 2 mouse cage than wild-type mice