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Phenotypic selection: a successful strategy to fix major genes of hypertension.
Biochemistry and molecular biology international - 1 May 1999
Klöting I, Kovács P, van den Brandt J
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension is dominantly inherited in cross hybrids between hypertensive SHR/Mol and normotensive BB/OK rats. We used these cross hybrids for repeated backcrossing of selected hypertensive animals onto normotensive BB/OK rats to fix high blood pressure and to generate a hypertensive and diabetic BB/OK rat subline. After 8 backcrosses, the backcross parents were genetically analysed with the aid of 259...
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