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Efficient method of genotyping ob/ob mice using high resolution melting analysis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Sutter Alton G, Palanisamy Arun P, Kurtz Nichole, Spyropoulos Demetri D, Chavin Kenneth D
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Direct health care costs of obesity continue to grow throughout the world and research on obesity disease models are on the rise. The ob/ob mouse is a well-characterized model of obesity and associated risk factors. Successful breeding and backcrossing onto different backgrounds are essential to create knockout models. Ob/ob mice are sterile and heterozygotes must be identified by genotyping to...
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