Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8411067 | Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models | 2016 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
The International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IKMC) developed high throughput gene trapping and gene targeting pipelines that produced mostly conditional mutations of more than 18,500 genes in C57BL/6N mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells which have been archived and are freely available to the research community as a frozen resource. From this unprecedented resource more than 6000 mutant mouse strains have been generated by the IKMC in collaboration with the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC). In addition, a cre-driver resource was established including 250 C57BL/6 cre-inducible mouse strains. Complementing the cre-driver resource, a collection comprising 27 rAAVs expressing cre in a tissue-specific manner has also been produced. All resources are easily accessible from the IKMC/IMPC web portal (www.mousephenotype.org). The IKMC/IMPC resource is a standardized reference library of mouse models with defined genetic backgrounds enabling the analysis of gene-disease associations in mice of different genetic makeup and should therefore have a major impact on biomedical research.
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Authors
C. Kaloff, K. Anastassiadis, A. Ayadi, R. Baldock, J. Beig, M.-C. Birling, A. Bradley, S.D.M. Brown, A. Bürger, W. Bushell, F. Chiani, F.S. Collins, B. Doe, J.T. Eppig, R.H. Finnell, C. Fletcher, P. Flicek, M. Fray, W. Wurst,