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ArticlePLoS genetics2006

Understanding mammalian genetic systems: the challenge of phenotyping in the mouse.

Steve D M Brown, John M Hancock, Hilary Gates

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Article in PLoS genetics, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Accessing data from the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium: state of the art and future plans.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2012
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  16. Structural and functional concepts in current mouse phenotyping and archiving facilities.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2012
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  18. The phenotypic distribution of quantitative traits in a wild mouse F1 population.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2012
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  20. CreZOO--the European virtual repository of Cre and other targeted conditional driver strains.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Steve D M BrownUniversity College London, United Kingdom. s.brown@har.mrc.ac.uk
John M Hancock
Hilary Gates

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U142684171Medical Research Council MC_U142684172Medical Research Council MC_U142684175
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding mammalian genetic systems is predicated on the determination of the relationship between genetic variation and phenotype. Several international programmes are under way to deliver mutations in every gene in the mouse genome. The challenge for mouse geneticists is to develop approaches that will provide comprehensive phenotype datasets for these mouse mutant libraries. Several factors are critical to success in this endeavour. It will be important to catalogue assay and environment and where possible to adopt standardised procedures for phenotyping tests along with common environmental conditions to ensure comparable datasets of phenotypes. Moreover, the scale of the task underlines the need to invest in technological development improving both the speed and cost of phenotyping platforms. In addition, it will be necessary to develop new informatics standards that capture the phenotype assay as well as other factors, genetic and environmental, that impinge upon phenotype outcome.

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Genetic TechniquesPhenotypeAnimalsComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticDisease Models, AnimalEmbryonic Stem CellsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMutagenesis

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PMID16933996
PMCPMC1557775

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