NOD congenic mice homozygous for the Faslgld spontaneous mutation are viable and fertile. The donating investigator reports that homozygous males and females develop lymphadenopathy and systemic autoimmunity beginning at 8 weeks of age, but do not develop diabetes. The Lupus phenotype is accelerated in this strain when compared to the B6-Faslgldstrain. This mutant strain may be useful in the studies of apoptosis of lymphocytes, particularly T cells, and in studies of Lupus.
In an attempt to offer alleles on well-characterized or multiple genetic backgrounds, alleles are frequently moved to a genetic background different from that on which an allele was first characterized.. It should be noted that the phenotype could vary from that originally described. We will modify the strain description if necessary as published results become available.

Congenic NOD mice homozygous for the Faslgld mutation develop lymphadenopathy and systemic autoimmunity. It has been reported that this model displays an accelerated Lupus phenotype compared to the C57BL/6 congenic background. This model is useful for studying apoptosis of lymphocytes, particularly T cells, and Lupus.

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