Characterization of epistasis influencing complex spontaneous obesity in the BSB model

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 399-409

  Yi, Nengjun ^a   Diament, Adam ^b   Chiu, Sally ^b   Kim, Kyoungmi ^a   Allison, David B ^a   Fisler, Janis S ^b   Warden, Craig H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; BAYES THEOREM; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 7; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPISTASIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; HEREDITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS SPRETUS;

EID: 2942525579     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.167.1.399     Document Type: Article

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