{"id":4220,"date":"2015-07-27T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2015-07-27T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:55:47","slug":"finding-the-function-of-over-150-mouse-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/finding-the-function-of-over-150-mouse-genes\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the function of over 150 mouse genes<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The largest analysis of mouse genes to date has identified the function of 159 genes whose purpose was previously unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers developed new statistical methods to analyse the 413 measurements and 320 genes from each mouse.<\/p>\n<p>The new data set is available to the scientific community as a reference resource, and provides a strategy for further research.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers took 413 measurements, including body weight, behavioral traits, and grip strength, from over 27,000 mice. They identified physical traits associated with 159 out of 179 genes whose functions were previously unknown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/press.nature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2015\/07\/NG.3360.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature Genetics\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 27<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Ann Flenniken, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario<br \/>\nGeoff Hicks, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, University of Manitoba, Manitoba<br \/>\nColin McKerlie, Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics, &amp; The\u00a0Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest analysis of mouse genes to date has identified the function of 159 genes whose purpose was previously unknown. The researchers developed new statistical methods to analyse the 413 measurements and 320 genes from each mouse. The new data set is available to the scientific community as a reference resource, and provides a strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[909,847,53,50],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-genetics","tag-manitoba-en","tag-medicine","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-164","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}