Essential Mouse Genes Could Guide Human Precision Medicine

Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 15:21 in Biology & Nature

About one-third of 1751 genes studied in the first comprehensive survey of the mouse genome are essential to life, according to research by an international collaboration including the University of California, Davis, Mouse Biology Program. Mutations of these genes cause death at the embryo stage. Many of them have counterparts in the human genome, so […]

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