Age-related thymic involution in C57BL/6J x DBA/2J recombinant-inbred mice maps to mouse chromosomes 9 and 10

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 402-410

  Hsu, H C ^a   Zhang, H G ^a,b   Li, L ^a   Yi, N ^c   Yang, P A ^a   Wu, Q ^a   Zhou, J ^a   Sun, S ^a   Xu, X ^a   Yang, X ^a   Lu, L ^d   Van Zant, G ^e   Williams, R W ^d   Allison, D B ^c   Mountz, John D ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic linkage; Negative exponential curve; QTL; Recombinant inbred mice; Thymic involution

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; INVOLUTION; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHROMOSOME; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; DBA MOUSE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 1142269467     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6363982     Document Type: Article

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