Complex trait analysis of gene expression uncovers polygenic and pleiotropic networks that modulate nervous system function

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-242

  Chesler, Elissa J ^a   Lu, Lu ^a   Shou, Siming ^a   Qu, Yanhua ^a   Gu, Jing ^a   Wang, Jintao ^a   Hsu, Hui Chen ^b   Mountz, John D ^b   Baldwin, Nicole E ^c   Langston, Michael A ^c   Threadgill, David W ^d   Manly, Kenneth F ^a   Williams, Robert W ^a  

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

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; INBRED STRAIN; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SYNAPSE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA;

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMALS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MICE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 20144386111     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1518     Document Type: Article

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