Establishment of thymoma-prone congenic rat strain, ACI.BUF/Mna-Tsr1/Tsr1

Purpose To confirm the presence of the susceptible gene for the thymoma development in the region that was assumed by the previous linkage study by Oyabu et al. (J Natl Cancer Inst 91:279–282, 1999), we tried to establish a congenic strain of rats.