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ReviewTrends in genetics : TIG2010

Gene targeting in the rat: advances and opportunities.

Howard J Jacob, Jozef Lazar, Melinda R Dwinell, Carol Moreno, Aron M Geurts

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Review in Trends in genetics : TIG, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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56citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Establishing the hybrid rat diversity program: a resource for dissecting complex traits.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2025
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  4. Animal models for transplant immunology: bridging bench to bedside.Clinical transplantation and research · 2024
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  8. Catechol-O-methyltransferase and Pregnancy Outcome: an Appraisal in Rat.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2021
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  15. From engineering to editing the rat genome.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2017
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  19. Genome editing in cardiovascular diseases.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Howard J JacobDepartment of Dermatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. jacob@mcw.edu
Jozef Lazar
Melinda R Dwinell
Carol Moreno
Aron M Geurts

Funding

RAT GENOME DATABASER01HL064541 · NHLBI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI ANNE E. KWITEK · 1999 to 2026
$50.0M
Mechanistic characterization of genes for hypertension and renal disease.RC2HL101681 · NHLBI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI JACOB, HOWARD J · 2009 to 2010
$6.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL064541NHLBI NIH HHS RC2 HL101681
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rat has long been a model favored by physiologists, pharmacologists and neuroscientists. However, over the past two decades, many investigators in these fields have turned to the mouse because of its gene modification technologies and extensive genomic resources. Although the genomic resources of the rat have nearly caught up, gene targeting has lagged far behind, limiting the value of the rat for many investigators. In the past two years, advances in transposon- and zinc finger nuclease (ZFN)-mediated gene knockout as well as the establishment and culturing of embryonic and inducible pluripotent stem cells have created new opportunities for rat genetic research. Here, we provide a high-level description and the potential uses of these new technologies for investigators using the rat for biomedical research.

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AnimalsEmbryo, MammalianEmbryonic Stem CellsGene Knockout TechniquesGene TargetingHumansMiceRats

Identifiers

PMID20869786
PMCPMC2991520

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