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The Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium: identification of ocular mutants.
Visual neuroscience - 1 Jan 2000
Jablonski Monica M, Wang Xiaofei, Lu Lu, Miller Darla R, Rinchik Eugene M, Williams Robert W, Goldowitz Daniel
Abstract excerpt
The Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium (TMGC) is in its fifth year of a ethylnitrosourea (ENU)-based mutagenesis screen to detect recessive mutations that affect the eye and brain. Each pedigree is tested by various phenotyping domains including the eye, neurohistology, behavior, aging, ethanol, drug, social behavior, auditory, and epilepsy domains. The utilization of a highly efficient breeding protocol and...
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