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DA rats from two colonies differ genetically and in their arthritis susceptibility.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Jun 2008
Rintisch Carola, Holmdahl Rikard
Abstract excerpt
The arthritis-susceptible DA rat is one of the most commonly used rat strains for genetic linkage analysis and is instrumental for the identification of many genetic loci. Even though DA rats were kept as inbred lines at different institutes and suppliers, it became obvious that the various breeding stocks differed genetically. To be able to compare the results from different linkage studies it is very import to...
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