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Pramod Dhakal1, Michael J Soares1
1Institute for Reproductive Health and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
Biotechniques
|May 23, 2017
Abstract:
The advent of genome editing strategies has expanded the range of animal models available for gene manipulation and renewed research interest in the rat. Gender is a key variable for in vivo gene function analyses. Here, we present a simple PCR-based method to determine genetic sex in the rat.

