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Facilitating Complex Trait Analysis via Reduced Complexity Crosses.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Aug 2020
Bryant Camron D, Smith Desmond J, Kantak Kathleen M, Nowak Thaddeus S, Williams Robert W, Damaj M Imad, Redei Eva E, Chen Hao, Mulligan Megan K
Abstract excerpt
Genetically diverse inbred strains are frequently used in quantitative trait mapping to identify sequence variants underlying trait variation. Poor locus resolution and high genetic complexity impede variant discovery. As a solution, we explore reduced complexity crosses (RCCs) between phenotypically divergent, yet genetically similar, rodent substrains. RCCs accelerate functional variant discovery via decreasing...
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