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Published in final edited form as: Trends Genet. 2020 May 29;36(8):549–562. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2020.05.003

Table 1.

Exemplary mouse and rat substrains and phenotypes that can be subjected to RCC analysis.

Mouse progenitor strains Sequenced Mouse Substrains (on miniMUGA array) Behavioral differences Physiological, disease model differences Oellular differences Molecular differences
A A/J, A/JOlaHsd Muscle dysfunction [T1]
BALB/c BALB/cJ, BALB/cByJ Aggressio n[T2], alcohol preference[T3], anxiety-like behavior[T4], cognitive flexibility[T5], inhibitory control[T6], epilepsy and neuroanatomical abnormalities[28],[T7
]
Allergic orchitis and encephalomyelitis [T8,T9], immune response to infection[T10], Grave’s hyperthyroidism[T11], experimental arthritis and spondylitis[T12], GABA transmission and anterior cingulate volume[T13,T14], cardiac calcinosis[T15], dexamethasone-induced osteonecrosis[T16], diet-induced fatty liver[T17], streptozotocin-induced diabetes[T18] Sperm abnormalities[T19], antibody-mediated immunity[T20], hepatocyte invasion following infection[T21, virus-induced demyelination[T22] Copy number variants[T23], amino acid and monoamine neurotransmitter content in caudate[T24]
C3H C3H/HeJ, C3H/HeNCrl, C3H/HeNRj, C3H/HeH, C3H/HeNHsd, C3H/HeNTac Nest building[T25], paw preferenc e[T26] Skeletal[T25], immune reactivity[T27], LPS responsiveness[T28], experimental leprosy[T29], spontaneous colitis[T30], experimental arthritis and spondylitis[T31], absence seizures[T32] Cytotoxic activity of lymphocytes in cancer model[T33], Toll-like receptor 4[T34], Gpr179[T35]
C57BL/6 C57BL/6NJ, C57BL/6NCrl, C57BL/6JBom Tac, C57BL/6ByJ, C57BL/6JOlaH sd, C57BL/6NTyr<c>/BrdCrC
rl, C57BL/6NJRj
Several. Reviewed by [5]. See also [6], [T36], and main text, corticoster one-induced depressive-like behaviors[T37], Several. Stroke[25], metabolic traits[T38], immune response[T39]. See also[6], kidney stones[T40], severity of Dravet syndrome model with Scn1a +/− [T41], circadian disruptive effects on behavior[T42], ocular lesions[T43], liver production of reactive oxygen species[T44], pain[5,24], viral-induced inflammation[T45], hindlimb unloading-induced bone loss[T46], inflammation-induced neutrophil recruitment[T47], high fat diet-induced obesity[T48], and metabolic and skeletal dysfunction[T49], impaired glucose secretion[T50], auditory physiology and pathology[T51], blood pressure[T52] Several[6], cardiac fibrogenic response to angiotensin[T53], acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity[T54], hypoxic-ischemic brain injury[T55] Gabra2[67], Cyfip2[10,11], Crb1[T56], Nlrp12[T57]
DBA/1 DBA/1LacJ, DBA/1OlaHsd Giant lysosomes in the kidney proximal tubules[T58], collagen-induced arthritis[T59] C5[T60]
DBA/2 Methamph etamine intake[21], acoustic startle [T61, T62] Viral infection susceptibility[T63] Klrd1 (CD94)[T64], Taar1[21]
FVB FVB/NJ, FVB/NCrl, FVB/NRj, FVB/NHsd, FVB/NTac Breast cancer[T65], pituitary abnormalities[T66], T-cell dysfunction and cutaneous pathology[T67]
NOD NOD/ShiLtJ, NOD/MrkTac Cataracts[T68], diabetes resistance[T69] Structural variants in chromosome3 and Icam2 (chromosome 11)[T70]
129 129Ps/OlaHsd, 129S1/SvImJ, 129S2/SvHsd, 129S2/SvPas OrlRj, 129S5/SvEvBrd, 129T2/SvEmJ, 129X1/SvJ Opioid addiction-related behaviors[T71,T72], fear conditioning[T73,T74], anxiety-like behavior[T74,T75,T76], habituation[T74], reversal learning[T77], spatial learning/memory[T77], forced swim test[T76], m, k,.cocaine motivation [T78] Inhibition of NaCl response in chorda tympani[T79] Disc1 deletion[T80]
Rat progenitor strains Sequenced Rat Substrains Behavioral differences Physiological differences Cellular differences Molecular differences
WKY WKY/NCrl vs WKY/NHsd Attention[T81,T82], anxiety-like behavior[T83, social interaction [T83] Tyrosine hydroxylase, dopamine transporter[T84], hippocampal gene expression[T85]
SHR SHRSP vs SHRSP5/Dmcr progression of fibrosis induced by high fat diet[T86]
SHR SHR vs SHRSP cerebral stroke[T87]
WKY WLI/Eer Open field[T88], FST[T89], stress-enhanced fear conditioning and alcohol consumption[60], response to chronic stress[59], Premature memory decline[T90] Resting state functional connectivity[T91], baseline and stress corticosterone levels[T92] Blood transcriptome[T92], amygdala transcriptome[T89], hippocampal transcriptome[T89, T93]
WKY
SS
WMI/Eer Open field[T88], FST[T89], stress-enhanced fear conditioning[60], alcohol consumption[60], response to chronic stress [59], premature memory decline[T90] Baseline and stress corticosterone levels[60], blood pressure[T94] Blood transcriptome[104], hippocampal transcriptome [T89,T93], and amygdala transcriptome[T89]
SS/Jr vs SS/JrHsdMcwi vs SR/Jr
F344 F344/NHsd vs F344/NCrHsd Body weight gain, neuropeptide Y and agouti-related protein[T95]