Genetics of obesity in KK mouse and effects of A(y) allele on quantitative regulation

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 506-510

  Suto, Jun Ichi ^a   Matsuura, Saori ^a   Imamura, Kenkichi ^a   Yamanaka, Harumichi ^a   Sekikawa, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 6; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PROGENY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OBESITY; PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0031927097     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359900809     Document Type: Article

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