The blessings and curses of C57BL/6 substrains in mouse genetic studies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1245, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-33

  Bryant, Camron D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

B6; Inbred; KOMP; Next generation sequencing; QTL mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84855208385     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06325.x     Document Type: Article

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