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Behavioral differences among 129 substrains: implications for knockout and transgenic mice.
Behavioral neuroscience - 1 Aug 2002
Cook Melloni N, Bolivar Valerie J, McFadyen Melanie P, Flaherty Lorraine
Abstract excerpt
Most knockout (KO) mice are produced with embryonic stem cells derived from a 129 strain. Because most KO strains are backcrossed to B6 yet retain a portion of their genome from 129, especially around the ablated target locus, phenotypes previously attributed to the ablated locus may be due to passenger 129 genes. Thus, the authors decided to test several 129 substrains for their behavioral characteristics. Seven...
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