The contributions of normal variation and genetic background to mammalian gene expression

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Pritchard, Colin ^a   Coil, David ^a   Hawley, Sarah ^a   Hsu, Li ^a   Nelson, Peter S ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; CYTOKINE; DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UBIQUITINATION; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; LIVER; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33745035864     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-3-r26     Document Type: Article

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