Strategies for mapping and cloning quantitative trait genes in rodents

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 271-286

  Flint, Jonathan ^a   Valdar, William ^a   Shifman, Sagiv ^a   Mott, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; HAPLOTYPE; INBRED STRAIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTAGENESIS; OUTBRED STRAIN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RAT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HAPLOTYPES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 15944376562     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1576     Document Type: Review

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