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A Rosetta Stone of mammalian genetics

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The Mammalian Comparative Database provides genetic maps of mammalian species. Comparative maps are valuable aids for predicting linkages, developing animal models and studying genome organization and evolution.

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  1. This work was supported by an NIH grant. Joseph H. Nadeau, Patricia L. Grant, Srinivas Mankala, Joel E. Richardson and Janan T. Eppig are at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA.

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    Nadeau, J., Grant, P., Mankala, S. et al. A Rosetta Stone of mammalian genetics. Nature 373, 363–365 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/373363a0

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