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Shortly After Her Birth a Baby Is Diagnosed with a Mutation

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Shortly after her birth a baby is diagnosed with a mutation in the erythropoietin receptor gene which leads to familial erythrocytosis (familial polycythemia) . During the seventh to ninth months of fetal development, the primary effect on her red blood cell production was in which of the following?


A) Liver
B) Yolk sac
C) Spleen
D) Thymus
E) Bone marrow

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