Glossary Term | Congenic Strain |
Definition |
An inbred strain of mouse that contains a small genetic region (ideally a single gene) from another strain, but which is otherwise identical to the original inbred strain. Congenic strains are derived by backcrossing to a parental inbred strain for at least ten generations while selecting for heterozygosity at a particular locus. A.BY-H2b H2-T18b/SnJ is a congenic strain. See also the Rules for Nomenclature of Mouse and Rat Strains. |
Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB), Gene Ontology (GO) |
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last database update 01/12/2021 MGI 6.16 |
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