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ILAR maintains the International Laboratory Code Registry. A Laboratory Code is a code of usually one to four letters (first letter is upper case, followed by all lower case), that identifies a particular institute, laboratory, or investigator that produced, and may hold stocks of a DNA marker, an animal strain, or a mutation. Laboratory codes are also used in naming chromosomal aberrations and transgenes.

Examples:

C3H/HeH: Mouse substrain derived at Harwell (H) from the Heston (He) substrain of C3H

D8Mit17: A DNA segment that was the 17th locus mapped to mouse Chromosome 8 by MIT

Note: Lab codes can not be retired or reused. If the original principal investigator has retired or moved to another organization, submit new contact information to ILAR.

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(Please include the lab code in all correspondence)

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