Little epistasis for anxiety-related measures in the DeFries strains of laboratory mice

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 77-82

  Flint, Jonathan ^a   DeFries, John C ^b   Henderson, Norman D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RAT STRAIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0742324932     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-003-3033-x     Document Type: Article

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