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The need for littermate controls.
Rikard Holmdahl1, Bernard Malissen
1Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. rikard.holmdahl@ki.se
European Journal of Immunology
|January 4, 2012
Summary
To avoid bias in research, especially with genetically modified animals, always include littermate controls in experiments. This improves the reliability of quantitative phenotype analysis in immunological studies.
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