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Mouse background genetics in biomedical research: The devil's in the details.
Transfusion - 1 Oct 2021
Hay Ariel M, Howie Heather L, Gorham James D, D'Alessandro Angelo, Spitalnik Steven L, Hudson Krystalyn E, Zimring James C
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BACKGROUND: Genetically modified mice are used widely to explore mechanisms in most biomedical fields-including transfusion. Concluding that a gene modification is responsible for a phenotypic change assumes no other differences between the gene-modified and wild-type mice besides the targetted gene. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: To test the hypothesis that the N-terminus of Band3, which regulates metabolism, affects...
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