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Sex Genotyping Mice by Polymerase Chain Reaction
Virginia E Papaioannou1, Richard R Behringer2
1Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA vep1@columbia.edu.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
|November 6, 2023
Abstract:
A simple method to determine the genetic sex of a mouse is to amplify DNA from a male-specific gene by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This protocol is used to detect the Y-chromosome-specific gene Sry in tissue lysates of tail tip or ear punch samples.

