Test of candidate gene-quantitative trait locus association applied to fatness in mice

Heredity

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 630-637

  Keightley, Peter D ^a   Morris, Kenneth H ^a   Ishikawa, Akira ^a,c   Falconer, Victoria M ^b   Oliver, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Fatness; Mouse; Obesity; QTL mapping; Selective genotyping

Indexed keywords

DIABETES GENE; GENE LOCUS; MOUSE; MUTANT; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOTE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MUTATION; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0032436489     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6884500     Document Type: Article

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