Quantitative trait loci approach to the genetics of sleep in recombinant inbred mice

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 37-43

  Tafti, Mehdi ^a,c   Chollet, Didier ^a   Valatx, Jean Louis ^b   Franken, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Division de Neuropsychiatrie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Candidate gene; Paradoxical sleep; Rapid eye movement sleep; Slow wave sleep

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 5; INBRED STRAIN; MAJOR GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REM SLEEP; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ALLELE; ANIMAL; AROUSAL; CHROMOSOME; CONGENIC STRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE STRAIN; TIME;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CHROMOSOMES; ENVIRONMENT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MICE, CONGENIC; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SLEEP, REM; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033064324     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.1999.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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