Updated September 2008

Mouse Wnt genes

There are 19 Wnt genes in the mouse genome.

Most genes linked to MGI, Mouse Genome Informatics. See the comparative table of all vertebrate Wnt genes for and explanation of the numbering/nomenclature. There is a separate table for syntenic linkage groups. Also, see alignments of many Wnt proteins

 gene  natural allele  Phenotype of Knockouts or other functions
Wnt1
(previously called int-1)

 

swaying
Thomas, 1991
Wnt2
(previously called irp)
 
Wnt2b/13  
Wnt3  
Wnt3a
 vestigial
tail Greco 1996
 Wnt4  
Wnt5a  
  •  truncated limbs, truncated AP axis, reduced number proliferating cells Yamaguchi 1999
  • Distal lung morphogenesis (Li, 2002)
  • Chondrocyte differentiation, longitudinal skeletal outgrowth (Yang, 2003)
  • Inhibits B cell proliferation and functions as a tumor suppressor (Liang 2003)
  • Defects in posterior growth of the female reproductuve tract (Mericskay et al, 2004)
  • shortened and widened cochlea (planar polarity) Qian 2007
  • Mammary gland phenotype (Roarty, 2007)
Wnt5b    
Wnt6    
Wnt7a
 postaxial hemimelia
Parr 1998
  • limb polarity (Parr 1995)
  • female infertility; failure regression of the Mullerian duct because the receptor for Mullerian-inhibiting substance is not expressed. Parr 1998
  • maintenance appropriate uterine patterning during the development of the mouse female reproductive tract (Miller 1998)
  • Delayed maturation synapses in Cerebellum (Hall, 2000)
  • High levels cell death in response to DES in the Female Reproductive Tract (Carta L, Sassoon D, 2004)
  • May promote neuronal differentiation (Hirabayashi 2004)
Wnt7b  
  • Placental developmental defects (Parr, 2001)
  • Respiratory failure; defects in early mesenchymal proliferation leading to lung hypoplasia (Shu, 2002)
  • macrophage-induced programmed cell death (Lobov, 2005) also in LRP5 and LEF1 mutants)
  • Lung development (Rajagopal 2008)
Wnt8a    
Wnt8b    
Wnt9a

(prev. Wnt14)

  • Loss of function mutant: Joint integrity (Spater 2006)
Wnt9b

(prev. Wnt15)

regulation of mesenchymal to epithelial transitions (Carroll, 2005)

renal vesicle induction Park, 2007

Wnt10a    
Wnt10b  
Loss of function mutant: decreased trabecular bone (Bennett 2005)
Loss gene promotes Coexpression of Myogenic and Adipogenic program (Vertino, 2005)
Overexpression inhibits adipogenesis Ross, 2000
Wnt11  
Ureteric branching defects (Majumdar, 2003)
Kispert A 1996
Cardiogenesis
Pandur 2002
Wnt16    Activated by E2A-Pbx1 fusion protein in Pre-B ALL McWhirter 1999