Of rats and men

Christopher K Patil; Steven A McCarroll

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.07.022

Of rats and men

Cell. 2013 Aug 1;154(3):481-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.07.022.

Authors

Christopher K Patil¹, Steven A McCarroll

Affiliation

¹ Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

PMID: 23911315
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.07.022

Abstract

The selective breeding of rats as physiological, behavioral, and disease models generated a wealth of variation relevant to the genetics of complex traits. In this issue, Atanur and colleagues sequence the genomes of 25 inbred rat strains to understand how artificial selection shaped their genomes.

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Electrocardiography / methods*
Humans
Intraoperative Care / methods*