Rat traps: Filling the toolbox for manipulating the rat genome

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  van Boxtel, Ruben ^a   Cuppen, Edwin ^a,b  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MODEL; GENOMICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN GENOME; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; GENOME; RAT;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RATS;

EID: 77958199171     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-9-217     Document Type: Review

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