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A large-scale SNP-based genomic admixture analysis of the captive rhesus macaque colony at the California National Primate Research Center.
American journal of primatology - 1 Aug 2012
Kanthaswamy Sreetharan, Trask Jessica Satkoski, Ross Cody T, Kou Alex, Houghton Paul, Smith David G, Lerche Nick
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Some breeding facilities in the United States have crossbred Chinese and Indian rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) founders either purposefully or inadvertently. Genetic variation that reflects geographic origins among research subjects has the potential to influence experimental outcomes. The use of animals from different geographic regions, their hybrids, and animals of varying degrees of kinship in an experiment...
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