Identification of two susceptibility loci for vascular fragility in the Brown Norway rat

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 2001, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 183-189

  Harris, Eugenie L ^a   Stoll, Monika ^b   Jones, Gregory T ^a   Granados, Mary A ^b   Porteous, William K ^a   Van Rij, Andre M ^a   Jacob, Howard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aorta; Atherosclerosis; Hypertension; Internal elastic lamina; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

LAMIINAE; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED SHR; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0345820045     PISSN: 15312267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.2001.6.3.183     Document Type: Article

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