BioTechniques (May 2017)

Single-step PCR-based genetic sex determination of rat tissues and cells

  • Pramod Dhakal,
  • Michael J. Soares

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2144/000114548
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 62, no. 5
pp. 232 – 233

Abstract

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The advent of genome editing strategies has expanded the range of animal models available for gene manipulation and renewed research interest in the rat. Gender is a key variable for in vivo gene function analyses. Here, we present a simple PCR-based method to determine genetic sex in the rat.

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