New tools for defining the 'genetic background' of inbred mouse strains

Nature Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 669-673

  Ridgway, William M ^a   Healy, Barry ^b   Smink, Luc J ^b   Rainbow, Dan ^b   Wicker, Linda S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONGENIC STRAIN; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENEALOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INBRED STRAIN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34250784496     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni0707-669     Document Type: Note

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