Mammalian Genetics Unit
AbbreviationMGU
Formation1995
TypeResearch institute
Legal statusGovernment agency
PurposeGenetics research in the UK
Location
  • Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD
Coordinates51°35′N 1°19′W / 51.58°N 1.32°W / 51.58; -1.32
Region served
UK
Parent organization
Medical Research Council
Staff
c. 400 genetics scientists
WebsiteMGU

The Mammalian Genetics Unit was a genetics and genomics research institute in Oxfordshire.

History

Earlier research on the same site at the Radiobiology Research Unit, which opened in 1954, in the 1950s was into cytogenetics, where Charles Edmund Ford and John Hamerton confirmed on 12 January 1956 the size of the human genome. In the early 1970s this unit led research into mutagenic effects of radiation on the human chromosome. In the mid-1980s, important early work was done in genomic imprinting.

From 2007, the site no longer carried work into the effects of radiation on genes (radiobiology).

From April 2022, the site closed as the Mammalian Genetics Unit and was merged with the neighboring Mary Lyons Centre.

MGU

The MGU is largely derived from the earlier Radiobiology Unit (RBU). In 2010, work at the unit discovered that overexpression of the FTO gene led to obesity.

Structure

The unit is in Oxfordshire.[1]

Function

The unit carries out work into genetics and genome engineering.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Oxfordshire Apprenticeships". oxfordshireapprenticeships.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
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