Genomic comparison of Lewis and Wistar-Furth rat substrains by use of microsatellite markers

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 25-29

  Callicott, Ralph J ^a   Ballard, Scott T ^b   Womack, James E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BREEDING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; INBRED STRAIN; LEWIS RAT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SIMPLE SEQUENCE LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; WISTAR FURTH RAT; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED WF;

EID: 34249854094     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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