title: Status and access to the Collaborative Cross population.
abstract: The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a panel of recombinant inbred lines derived from eight genetically diverse laboratory inbred strains. Recently, the genetic architecture of the CC population was reported based on the genotype of a single male per line, and other publications reported incompletely inbred CC mice that have been used to map a variety of traits. The three breeding sites, in the US, Israel, and Australia, are actively collaborating to accelerate the inbreeding process through marker-assisted inbreeding and to expedite community access of CC lines deemed to have reached defined thresholds of inbreeding. Plans are now being developed to provide access to this novel genetic reference population through distribution centers. Here we provide a description of the distribution efforts by the University of North Carolina Systems Genetics Core, Tel Aviv University, Israel and the University of Western Australia.
authors: Department of Computer Science, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
authors: Catherine E
authors: CE
authors: Welsh
authors: Darla R
authors: DR
authors: Miller
authors: Kenneth F
authors: KF
authors: Manly
authors: Jeremy
authors: J
authors: Wang
authors: Leonard
authors: L
authors: McMillan
authors: Grant
authors: G
authors: Morahan
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Mott
authors: Fuad A
authors: FA
authors: Iraqi
authors: David W
authors: DW
authors: Threadgill
authors: Fernando Pardo-Manuel
authors: FP
authors: de Villena
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016678:Genome; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains / Q000235:genetics*