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Identification of a rat model for usher syndrome type 1B by N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea mutagenesis-driven forward genetics.
Genetics - 1 Aug 2005
Smits Bart M G, Peters Theo A, Mul Joram D, Croes Huib J, Fransen Jack A M, Beynon Andy J, Guryev Victor, Plasterk Ronald H A, Cuppen Edwin
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The rat is the most extensively studied model organism and is broadly used in biomedical research. Current rat disease models are selected from existing strains and their number is thereby limited by the degree of naturally occurring variation or spontaneous mutations. We have used ENU mutagenesi...
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