This Core will provide advice, vectors, and as needed actual vector construction and validation for the production of needed knockin and BAC Tg mice. It will also provide initial validation and breeding of such mice, and will transfer mice as needed to the individual projects. However, it will not generally be a mouse- breeding repository. Finally, the Core will provide access to and advice on mouse SNP genotyping which will allow the projects to appropriately conduct """"""""speed-congenic"""""""" type backcrossing programs. This in turn will make new strains ready for use much more quickly, thus improving the efficiency ofthe projects overall. It will also provide important quality control over the genetic content ofthe strains used in the project.

Public Health Relevance

This Core will provide important support for genetic experiments that will help elucidate how lupus develops in live animals, which is the only good model for human lupus.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01AR050256-08
Application #
8120848
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZAR1)
Project Start
2010-07-01
Project End
2014-06-30
Budget Start
2010-07-01
Budget End
2011-06-30
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
2010
Total Cost
$2
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester
Department
Type
DUNS #
603847393
City
Worcester
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
01655
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