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The Collaborative Cross mouse model for dissecting genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Aug 2018
Abu Toamih Atamni Hanifa, Nashef Aysar, Iraqi Fuad A
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Infectious diseases, also known as communicable diseases, refer to a full range of maladies caused by pathogen invasion to the host body. Host response towards an infectious pathogen varies between individuals, and can be defined by responses from asymptomatic to lethal. Host response to infectious pathogens is considered as a complex trait controlled by gene-gene (host-pathogen) and gene-environment...
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