Strains of Laboratory Mice More Varied Than Previously Thought, University of North Carolina Study

CHAPEL HILL – A collaborative study by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has found that the genetic variation in the most widely used strains of laboratory mice is vastly greater than previously thought.Where previously there were only 140,000 variations in DNA sequence described, it turns out there are 8.3 million.

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