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The paper explicitly reports no limb or digit abnormalities in mice carrying this variant. It reports other skeletal changes, but not extra digits. Richards’s account conflicts with that result.
The archaic human GLI3 R1537C variant and equivalent R1540C mouse model in Agata and colleagues’ 2023 study.
Richards attributes extra digits to the variant-bearing mice. This assessment checks that specific result against the paper.
The variant-bearing mice had no limb or digit abnormalities. The authors distinguish this result from the extra digits associated with loss of GLI3 function.
The finding concerns the tested variant and mouse model, not every GLI3 mutation.
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Richards’s specific mouse-study account.
Related arguments and comparisons; these do not repeat the same claim about the same objects.
Related context: Richards links archaic ancestry with extra digits. The paper is not identified by title in this earlier passage.