congenics

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A form of congenic — (of different strains of an organism) That are genetically identical except for a variation in a limited genetic region or locus

Scrabble 14

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of congenic
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    We performed OS counts in the mid-peripheral retinas of 4-week-old rd1 mice, where cone density is the highest, and found similar numbers for C3H/HeOu (8.43±0.9 k/mm 2, n=6) and FVB/N (7.08±0.54 k/mm 2, n=6) mice that did not significantly differ from the counts of their seeing congenics (C3H-Pde6b + (9.45±0.75 k/mm 2, n=5; FVB-Pde6b + 8.72±0.68 k/mm 2, n=5).

    2015 July 31, Michiel van Wyk, Sabine Schneider, Sonja Kleinlogel, “Variable phenotypic expressivity in inbred retinal degeneration mouse lines: A comparative study of C3H/HeOu and FVB/N rd1 mice”, in Molecular Vision, volume 21
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