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MSH: Genetically identical individuals developed from brother and sister matings which have been carried out for twenty or more generations, or by parent x offspring matings carried out with certain restrictions. All animals within an inbred strain trace back to a common ancestor in the twentieth generation.,NCI: Any strain of mouse that is the product of a mating between close relatives. In biological research, inbreeding allows for the selection of specific genotypes or phenotypes that are of particular importance to the study being carried out.
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