Complex trait analysis of the mouse striatum: Independent QTLs modulate volume and neuron number

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Rosen, Glenn D ^a,b   Williams, Robert W ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRAIT; INBRED STRAIN; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STEREOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE CELL; ORGAN SIZE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; CROSSES, GENETIC; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035789842     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-2-5     Document Type: Article

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