Wild mouse gut microbiota promotes host fitness and improves disease resistance

SP Rosshart, BG Vassallo, D Angeletti, DS Hutchinson… - Cell, 2017‏ - cell.com
Laboratory mice, while paramount for understanding basic biological phenomena, are
limited in modeling complex diseases of humans and other free-living mammals. Because …

R/qtl2: software for map** quantitative trait loci with high-dimensional data and multiparent populations

KW Broman, DM Gatti, P Simecek, NA Furlotte… - Genetics, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
R/qtl2 is an interactive software environment for map** quantitative trait loci (QTL) in
experimental populations. The R/qtl2 software expands the scope of the widely-used R/qtl …

A platform for experimental precision medicine: The extended BXD mouse family

DG Ashbrook, D Arends, P Prins, MK Mulligan, S Roy… - Cell systems, 2021‏ - cell.com
The challenge of precision medicine is to model complex interactions among DNA variants,
phenotypes, development, environments, and treatments. We address this challenge by …

Genomes of the mouse collaborative cross

A Srivastava, AP Morgan, ML Najarian, VK Sarsani… - Genetics, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a multiparent panel of recombinant inbred (RI)
mouse strains derived from eight founder laboratory strains. RI panels are popular because …

Proteomic and transcriptomic profiling reveal different aspects of aging in the kidney

Y Takemon, JM Chick, I Gerdes Gyuricza, DA Skelly… - elife, 2021‏ - elifesciences.org
Little is known about the molecular changes that take place in the kidney during the aging
process. In order to better understand these changes, we measured mRNA and protein …

Host-pathogen genetic interactions underlie tuberculosis susceptibility in genetically diverse mice

CM Smith, RE Baker, MK Proulx, BB Mishra, JE Long… - Elife, 2022‏ - elifesciences.org
The outcome of an encounter with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) depends on the
pathogen's ability to adapt to the variable immune pressures exerted by the host …

Genetic determinants of gut microbiota composition and bile acid profiles in mice

JH Kemis, V Linke, KL Barrett, FJ Boehm… - PLoS …, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
The microbial communities that inhabit the distal gut of humans and other mammals exhibit
large inter-individual variation. While host genetics is a known factor that influences gut …

The impact of chromosomal fusions on 3D genome folding and recombination in the germ line

C Vara, A Paytuví-Gallart, Y Cuartero… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The spatial folding of chromosomes inside the nucleus has regulatory effects on gene
expression, yet the impact of genome reshuffling on this organization remains unclear. Here …

Genetic quality: a complex issue for experimental study reproducibility

A Yoshiki, G Ballard, AV Perez - Transgenic research, 2022‏ - Springer
Laboratory animal research involving mice, requires consideration of many factors to be
controlled. Genetic quality is one factor that is often overlooked but is essential for the …

Content and performance of the MiniMUGA genoty** array: a new tool to improve rigor and reproducibility in mouse research

JS Sigmon, MW Blanchard, RS Baric, TA Bell… - Genetics, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
The laboratory mouse is the most widely used animal model for biomedical research, due in
part to its well-annotated genome, wealth of genetic resources, and the ability to precisely …