TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategies for Maintaining Mouse Mutations
AU - Papaioannou, Virginia E.
AU - Behringer, Richard R.
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PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Rules for naming a new mutation are provided. The majority of new mutations are recessive and thus easily maintained in a mouse strain. Considerations on the choice of genetic background are given, depending on how the mutant was produced and how you intend to analyze it. General information on maintaining a mutant colony to perpetuate the mutation and to efficiently produce homozygous mutant mice for analysis is provided. Also discussed are special breeding techniques to delete a selection cassette in vivo, if you produced the mutation in embryonic stem (ES) cells, and to maintain a mutant with a balancer chromosome. In the event of either male or female infertility in the heterozygotes, assisted reproductive techniques may be necessary.
AB - Rules for naming a new mutation are provided. The majority of new mutations are recessive and thus easily maintained in a mouse strain. Considerations on the choice of genetic background are given, depending on how the mutant was produced and how you intend to analyze it. General information on maintaining a mutant colony to perpetuate the mutation and to efficiently produce homozygous mutant mice for analysis is provided. Also discussed are special breeding techniques to delete a selection cassette in vivo, if you produced the mutation in embryonic stem (ES) cells, and to maintain a mutant with a balancer chromosome. In the event of either male or female infertility in the heterozygotes, assisted reproductive techniques may be necessary.
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U2 - 10.1101/pdb.over107960
DO - 10.1101/pdb.over107960
M3 - Review article
C2 - 37932086
AN - SCOPUS:85181761375
SN - 1940-3402
VL - 2024
JO - Cold Spring Harbor protocols
JF - Cold Spring Harbor protocols
IS - 1
ER -