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Glossary
Term
Segregating Inbred Strain MGI Glossary
Definition
An inbred strain that is kept in forced heterozygosity for one or more loci. For example, the SM/J strain segregates for an agouti allele and animals are either Aw/a (white bellied agouti) or a/a(black) in color.
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04/03/2013
MGI 5.12 		The Jackson Laboratory