[In the mouse, Lhx2, which encodes a member of the LIM (Lin-11, Isl-1, and Mec-3) class of homeodomain proteins, was shown to be expressed during early development in the posterior pituitary, eye, and liver, and its expression persists in adulthood in the central nervous system Lhx2(-/-) mice display absence of posterior pituitary and intermediate lobes, malformation of the anterior lobe, anophthalmia, and they die from anemia.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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