Quantitative trait loci influencing cholesterol and phospholipid phenotypes map to chromosomes that contain genes regulating blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 856-862

  Bottger, Anita ^a   Van Lith, Hein A ^a   Kren, Vladimír ^b   Krenová, Drahomíra ^b   Bílá, Vlasta ^b   Vorlícek, Jaroslav ^c   Zídek, Václav ^c   Musilová, Alena ^c   Zdobinská, Miroslava ^c   Wang, Jia Ming ^d   Van Zutphen, Bert F M ^a   Kurtz, Theodore W ^d   Pravenec, Michal ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dyslipidemia; genetics; hypertension; quantitative trait loci; rat

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 20; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RAT; REGULATOR GENE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 10244221216     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI118858     Document Type: Article

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