A revamped rat reference genome improves the discovery of genetic diversity in laboratory rats

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science, and Toxicology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
• ² Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ³ Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, San Diego, CA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
• ⁷ Rat Genome Database, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
• ⁸ Michigan Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
• ¹⁰ Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.
• ¹¹ Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council, Naples, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Anatomy, Physiology & Genetics; The American Genome Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Washington DC, USA.
• ¹⁴ The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, Center For Human Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹⁵ Genome Structure and Ageing, University of Groningen, UMC Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁶ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.
• ¹⁷ Gluck Equine Research Center, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY, USA.
• ¹⁸ Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
• ²⁰ Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ²¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ²² Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.
• ²³ Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
• ²⁴ Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
• ²⁵ National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ²⁶ Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.