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Of rats and men
Christopher K Patil1, Steven A McCarroll
1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Cell
|August 6, 2013
Abstract:
The selective breeding of rats as physiological, behavioral, and disease models generated a wealth of variation relevant to the genetics of complex traits. In this issue, Atanur and colleagues sequence the genomes of 25 inbred rat strains to understand how artificial selection shaped their genomes.
