Origins of albino and hooded rats: Implications from molecular genetic analysis across modern laboratory rat strains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Kuramoto, Takashi ^a   Nakanishi, Satoshi ^a   Ochiai, Masako ^b   Nakagama, Hitoshi ^b   Voigt, Birger ^a   Serikawa, Tadao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 14; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; INTRON; KIT GENE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; INTRONS; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PIEBALDISM; RATS; RETROVIRIDAE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84865105433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043059     Document Type: Article

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