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ey0015.14-14 | Reliable evidence on mouse knock-outs | ESPEYB15

14.14 Disease model discovery from 3,328 gene knockouts by The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium

TF Meehan , N Conte , DB West , JO Jacobsen , J Mason , J Warren , CK Chen , I Tudose , M Relac , P Matthews , N Karp , L Santos , T Fiegel , N Ring , H Westerberg , S Greenaway , D Sneddon , H Morgan , GF Codner , ME Stewart , J Brown , N Horner , C International Mouse Phenotyping , M Haendel , N Washington , CJ Mungall , CL Reynolds , J Gallegos , V Gailus-Durner , T Sorg , G Pavlovic , LR Bower , M Moore , I Morse , X Gao , GP Tocchini-Valentini , Y Obata , SY Cho , JK Seong , J Seavitt , AL Beaudet , ME Dickinson , Y Herault , W Wurst , MH de Angelis , KCK Lloyd , AM Flenniken , LMJ Nutter , S Newbigging , C McKerlie , MJ Justice , SA Murray , KL Svenson , RE Braun , JK White , A Bradley , P Flicek , S Wells , WC Skarnes , DJ Adams , H Parkinson , AM Mallon , SDM Brown , D Smedley

To read the full abstract: Nat Genet 2017;49:1231-1238This large international initiative is a major collaboration across 25 research institutes that was set up as part of the scientific community’s response to concerns regarding the notoriously poor reproducibility of scientific research. Up to now, many mouse gene knock-outs have been made and reported, but inconsistency between finding...