Strain information
 NBRP Rat No: 0020  Strain name: WTC/Kyo  Commmon Name: WTC Rat Genome Database
Principal Investigator:  Tadao Serikawa  Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University       Yoshidakonoe-cho, Sakyo-ku    606-8501 Kyoto     JAPAN
Tel: 075-753-4360    Fax: 075-753-4409 Email: serikawa@anim.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Preservation Status:   Embryo        Sperm       Living Animals ../images/Photos/WTC/151a%20(Large).jpg ../images/Photos/WTC/151z%20(Large).jpg
Coat Color  albino (a,B,c)
Inbred Generations  F86 (March 2012)
Usage Restrictions  
Genetic Status
 Inbred  Segregating  Congenic  Consomic  Recombinant
 Coisogenic  Spont. Mutant  Transgene  Ind. Mutant  Category Other 
Comercial Availability
Research Category
 Diabetes Obesity  Neurobiology  Ophthalmology  Dentistry  Cardio Hypertension
 Cancer  Metabolism  Otorhinology  Immunology  Infectious
 Osteosis  Internal Organ  Dermatology  Reproduction  Development
 Behavior  Hematology  Urology  Pharmacology  Research Area Others 
 Control Strain  Marker Strain
Gene Affected
Origin WTC was established as a coisogenic strain (tm<+/+>) from TRM (F18) in 1988. A missense mutation (c. 1061 C>T, p. A354V) in the hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated 1 channel (Hcn1) gene (Ohno et al. 2015).
Strain characteristics Control coisogenic strain of TRM rat (NBRP No.0015).
Breeding Conditions Good breeding performance. Sib mating.
Genotyping
References Hieu HT, Tanaka M, Kuwamura M, Mashimo T, Serikawa T, Kuramoto T.
The rat Downunder (Du) coat color mutation is associated with eye anomalies and embryonic lethality and maps to a 3.9-Mb region on chromosome 3.
Exp Anim. 2023 Feb 21;72(1):88-94.

Nagaki Y, Ito K, Kuwahara M.
WTC rat has unique characteristics such as resistant to streptozotocin.
Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, Volume 8, December 2016, Pages 157–161

Y. Ohno, S. Shimizu, A. Tatara, T. Imaoku, T. Ishii, M. Sasa, T. Serikawa, T. Kuramoto.
Hcn1 is a tremorgenic genetic component in a rat model of essential tremor.
PLoS One. 2015 May 13;10(5):e0123529.

Yoshihara M, Saito D, Sato T, Ohara O, Kuramoto T, Suyama M.
Design and application of a target capture sequencing of exons and conserved non-coding sequences for the rat.
BMC Genomics. 2016 Aug 9;17:593.

Kuramoto T, Nakanishi S, Ochiai M, Nakagama H, Voigt B, Serikawa T.
Origins of Albino and Hooded Rats: Implications from Molecular Genetic Analysis across Modern Laboratory Rat Strains.
PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e43059.
Kuramoto T, Yokoe M, Hashimoto R, Hiai H, Serikawa T.
A rat model of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia carries a missense mutation in the Edaradd gene.
BMC Genetics 12:91, 2011
Additional strain information WTC