A computer program that draws pedigree charts for inbred strains of animals |
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| Authors: | N Kasai S Kasai Y Tsushima |
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| Institution: | Institute for Animal Experimentation, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | We produced a computer program that draws pedigree charts for inbred strains of animals such as mice or rats. This program is composed of four subprograms, which are (1) inputting the data, (2) drawing pedigree charts, (3) listing the data which have been input, and (4) backup of the system and the data. Pedigree charts and lists of data can be displayed on a TV screen and printed out on the papers. Using this program, we drew the pedigree charts of the inbred strains of rats which we are maintaining by brother-sister inbreeding in our institute and found that there were three sublines in one of the strains, WKAH/Hkm, because of unsuitable maintenance. This program is very convenient to draw the pedigree charts and useful for checking the maintenance of inbred strains or the strains of animal models of human diseases. |
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