Mouse Genome Resequencing and SNP Discovery Project

Eleazar Eskin, assistant professor of human genetics and computer science, is part of a team of researchers on the Mouse Genome Resequencing and SNP Discovery Project (sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a component of the National Institutes of Health). Their collaborative research paper, "A Sequence-Based Variation Map of 8.27 Million SNPs in Inbred Mouse Strains," will be published in an upcoming issue of "Nature." This research, which examined the DNA of 15 mouse strains commonly used in biomedical studies, is expected to help scientists determine the genes related to susceptibility to environmental disease.