Genetics of body weight in the LXS recombinant inbred mouse strains

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 764-774

  Bennett, Beth ^a   Carosone Link, Phyllis J ^a   Lu, Lu ^b   Chesler, Elissa J ^b   Johnson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENOTYPE; INTERNET; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 32944470263     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-005-0002-6     Document Type: Article

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