Mispairing C57BL/6 substrains of genetically engineered mice and wild-type controls can lead to confounding results as it did in studies of JNK2 in acetaminophen and concanavalin A liver injury.

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C57BL/6 mice are widely used in biomedical research for the background of genetically engineered mice (GEM) and wild-type controls with the belief that the genetic background of GEM and control mice differ significantly by only one or more altered genes. This principle, however, does have limitat...

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