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A Phenotyping Regimen for Genetically Modified Mice Used to Study Genes Implicated in Human Diseases of Aging
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Author Correction: Comparing phenotypic variation between inbred and outbred mice
Alexander H Tuttle1, Vivek M Philip2, Elissa J Chesler2
1UNC Neuroscience Centre, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Nature Methods
|December 26, 2018
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In the version of this Comment originally published, the authors omitted a funding source. Grant 5 P50 DA039841 (to E.J.C.) from the US National Institute on Drug Abuse has been added to the Acknowledgements in the HTML and PDF versions of the paper.
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