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A novel mutation in the thyroglobulin gene that causes goiter and dwarfism in Wistar Hannover GALAS rats.
Mutation research - 1 Apr 2014
Sato Akira, Abe Kuniya, Yuzuriha Misako, Fujii Sakiko, Takahashi Naofumi, Hojo Hitoshi, Teramoto Shoji, Aoyama Hiroaki
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Outbred stocks of rats have been used extensively in biomedical, pharmaceutical and/or toxicological studies as a model of genetically heterogeneous human populations. One of such stocks is the Wistar Hannover GALAS rat. However, the colony of Wistar Hannover GALAS rat has been suspected of keeping a problematic mutation that manifests two distinct spontaneous abnormalities, goiter and dwarfism, which often...
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