Posted by Kite and Zebedee under blog's category : Research & medical benefits

Laboratory mice are so inbred they have portions of genome with no variety at all. To discover much more about what genes do, new wild strains are being introduced into the laboratory.

The Collaborative Cross project started in 2005 with five classic inbreds strains of mice and three more recently developed wild-derived strains. It began to breed them and their offspring together, to reshuffle their genes with the aim of creating hundreds more mouse varieties with a greater genetic diversity.

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