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Genetic analysis of frequencies of phenotypes in the spontaneously diabetic BB rat--a main animal model of autoimmune type-I-diabetes.
Diabetes research (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jan 1993
Vogt L, Klöting I
Abstract excerpt
The incidence of diabetes shows variations of 40 to 80% in different BB rat sublines. Whether genetic or environmental factors are responsible for this observation remains unclear. Little data is available on population-based investigations and no results have been reported about computer-aided simulation of models with regard to the inheritance of spontaneous diabetes in BB rats. On the basis of the finding that...
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