| Primary Identifier | MGI:1859863 | Allele Type | Targeted |
| Attribute String | Null/knockout | Gene | Vax1 |
| Inheritance Mode | Semidominant | Transmission | Germline |
| Strain of Origin | 129S1/Sv-Oca2<+> Tyr<+> Kitl<+> | Is Recombinase | false |
| Is Wild Type | false |
| molecularNote | A neomycin selection cassette replaced exons 1 and 2, which encode the first 166 amino acids, including the initiator methionine and 46 residues of the homeodomain. An absence of transcript was determined via in situ hybridization of the ventral diencephalon region in homozygous mutant embryos. |