Название | Pathology of Genetically Engineered and Other Mutant Mice |
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Автор произведения | Группа авторов |
Жанр | Биология |
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Издательство | Биология |
Год выпуска | 0 |
isbn | 9781119624592 |
Large Scale Mutagenesis
International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC; https://www.mousephenotype.org)
Many pharmaceutical companies have created large number of mutant mice, some using large scale, high throughput methods to both create and phenotype the mice generated. However, their goals were very drug oriented and proprietary. Only now, many years later are some of the results becoming publicly available from such projects as those done by Lexicon [46]. An alternative approach was to systematically create null mutations in all known protein‐coding genes in the mouse and utilize a systematic and standardized phenotyping protocol. The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) was developed to meet this objective [47]. While initially a variety of recombineering methods were used, now null mutations are created using CRISPR/Cas9. The goal is to inactivate approximately 20 000 genes one at a time on a standardized inbred strain (C56BL/6N). Attempts at overall standardization enable comparison of results creating in a sense an encyclopedia on gene function inferred from knockout phenotypes. However, there are variations between the environments at different participating institutions and different