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MAMMALIAN GENOME
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 31-43Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-021-09933-w
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- National BioResource Project (NBRP) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT)
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
- Biodiversity Research Project of the Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center, ROIS
- NIG Advanced Genomics Project (Next Generation Genome-Research-Hub Project)
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The study presents genomic variations among subspecies in laboratory mouse strains and highlights the phenotypic diversity in the Mishima Battery strains. A new genome database called MoG+ was introduced, offering a valuable resource for investigating the phenotype-genotype links in diverse mouse strains.
Laboratory mouse strains have mosaic genomes derived from at least three major subspecies that are distributed in Eurasia. Here, we describe genomic variations in ten inbred strains: Mus musculus musculus-derived BLG2/Ms, NJL/Ms, CHD/Ms, SWN/Ms, and KJR/Ms; M. m. domesticus-derived PGN2/Ms and BFM/Ms; M. m. castaneus-derived HMI/Ms; and JF1/Ms and MSM/Ms, which were derived from a hybrid between M. m. musculus and M. m. castaneus. These strains were established by Prof. Moriwaki in the 1980s and are collectively named the Mishima Battery. These strains show large phenotypic variations in body size and in many physiological traits. We resequenced the genomes of the Mishima Battery strains and performed a comparative genomic analysis with dbSNP data. More than 81 million nucleotide coordinates were identified as variant sites due to the large genetic distances among the mouse subspecies; 8,062,070 new SNP sites were detected in this study, and these may underlie the large phenotypic diversity observed in the Mishima Battery. The new information was collected in a reconstructed genome database, termed MoG+ that includes new application software and viewers. MoG+ intuitively visualizes nucleotide variants in genes and intergenic regions, and amino acid substitutions across the three mouse subspecies. We report statistical data from the resequencing and comparative genomic analyses and newly collected phenotype data of the Mishima Battery, and provide a brief description of the functions of MoG+, which provides a searchable and unique data resource of the numerous genomic variations across the three mouse subspecies. The data in MoG+ will be invaluable for research into phenotype-genotype links in diverse mouse strains.
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