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ArticleNature2011

A conditional knockout resource for the genome-wide study of mouse gene function.

William C Skarnes, Barry Rosen, Anthony P West, Manousos Koutsourakis, Wendy Bushell, Vivek Iyer, Alejandro O Mujica, Mark Thomas, Jennifer Harrow, Tony Cox and 8 more

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Article in Nature, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,154 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

William C SkarnesWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. skarnes@sanger.ac.uk
Barry Rosen
Anthony P West
Manousos Koutsourakis
Wendy Bushell
Vivek Iyer
Alejandro O Mujica
Mark Thomas
Jennifer Harrow
Tony Cox
David Jackson
Jessica Severin
Patrick Biggs
Jun Fu
Michael Nefedov
Pieter J de Jong
A Francis Stewart
Allan Bradley

Funding

High-throughput targeted mutagenesis of mouse stem cell linesU01HG004080 · NHGRI · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RES CTR AT OAKLAND · PI DE JONG, PIETER J. · 2006 to 2010
$28.1M
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG004080NHGRI NIH HHS U01-HG004080Wellcome Trust 077188
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene targeting in embryonic stem cells has become the principal technology for manipulation of the mouse genome, offering unrivalled accuracy in allele design and access to conditional mutagenesis. To bring these advantages to the wider research community, large-scale mouse knockout programmes are producing a permanent resource of targeted mutations in all protein-coding genes. Here we report the establishment of a high-throughput gene-targeting pipeline for the generation of reporter-tagged, conditional alleles. Computational allele design, 96-well modular vector construction and high-efficiency gene-targeting strategies have been combined to mutate genes on an unprecedented scale. So far, more than 12,000 vectors and 9,000 conditional targeted alleles have been produced in highly germline-competent C57BL/6N embryonic stem cells. High-throughput genome engineering highlighted by this study is broadly applicable to rat and human stem cells and provides a foundation for future genome-wide efforts aimed at deciphering the function of all genes encoded by the mammalian genome.

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Gene DeletionAllelesAnimalsComputational BiologyEmbryonic Stem CellsGene Knockout TechniquesGenesGenes, LethalGenetic Association StudiesGenetic VectorsGenomeGenomicsGenotypeHumansMiceMice, Inbred C57BL

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PMID21677750
PMCPMC3572410

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