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Data mining in a behavioral test detects early symptoms in a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Behavioral neuroscience - 1 Aug 2008
Kafkafi Neri, Yekutieli Daniel, Yarowsky Paul, Elmer Gregory I
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"What's wrong with my genetically engineered animal?" is a common yet often difficult to answer question in behavioral phenotyping. We present here a method termed Pattern Array for mining movement patterns and isolating those that best capture an effect of a genetic manipulation. We demonstrate the method by searching for early motor symptoms in the open-field behavior of SOD1 mutant rats, an animal model of...
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