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Genetic Background

Known as: Background, Genetic, Backgrounds, Genetic, Genetic Backgrounds 
The entire genetic composition of a strain or individual that interacts with a gene of interest.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Differential effects of RNAi treatments on field populations of the western corn rootworm.
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
COLT-Cancer: functional genetic screening resource for essential genes in human cancer cell lines
Genome-wide pooled shRNA screens enable global identification of the genes essential for cancer cell survival and proliferation… 
2011
2011
Projections of alcohol deaths—a wake-up call
Review
2008
Review
2008
Gene polymorphisms and elite athletic performance.
  • M. C. CalóG. Vona
  • Journal of anthropological sciences = Rivista di…
  • 2008
  • Corpus ID: 2740359
Endurance and power performance capacities show much interindividual variation, even among well trained athletes. In the past few… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Extremely low penetrance of hearing loss in four Chinese families with the mitochondrial 12S rRNA A1555G mutation.
2003
2003
Isolation of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci from patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and comparison of different molecular techniques for…
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Increased immunoreactivity to two overlapping peptides of myelin proteolipid protein in multiple sclerosis.
We tested the proliferative responses of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 61 patients with multiple sclerosis, 56 healthy… 
Review
1987
Review
1987
Class II-restricted T cell responses in Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV)-induced demyelinating disease. II. Survey of host immune responses and central nervous system virus titers in…
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
The mixed leukocyte reaction in chickens. Evidence for control by the major histocompatibility complex
One‐way and two‐way mixed leukocyte reactions (MLR) have been performed using cells isolated from peripheral blood of chickens… 
1959
1959
Single Gene Heterosis Associated with a Second Chromosome Recessive Lethal in Drosophila Melanogaster.
the reasons that heterosis has immense value in practical utilization in agriculture and the evolutionary significance of… 
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