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MAMMALIAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.

Term:increased forebrain size
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Definition:greater than average size of the anterior of the three primary divisions of the developing chordate brain or the corresponding part of the adult brain (in vertebrates, includes especially the cerebral hemispheres, the thalamus, and the hypothalamus and especially in higher vertebrates is the main control center for sensory and associative information processing, visceral functions, and voluntary motor functions)
Synonyms:exact_synonym: enlarged forebrain;   enlarged prosencephalon;   expanded forebrain;   expanded prosencephalon;   increased prosencephalon size



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  mammalian phenotype 0
    nervous system phenotype 0
      abnormal nervous system morphology 0
        abnormal brain morphology 0
          abnormal brain size 0
            increased brain size 0
              increased forebrain size 0
                forebrain hyperplasia 0
                increased forebrain volume 0
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