Identification of genetic regions of importance for reproductive performance in female mice

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 901-909

  Liljander, Maria ^a   Sällström, Mary Ann ^a   Andersson, Sara ^a   Wernhoff, Patrik ^a   Andersson, Åsa ^b   Holmdahl, Rikard ^a   Mattsson, Ragnar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 9; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GROWTH CURVE; HAPLOTYPE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENOTYPE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MICE; MICE, CONGENIC; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 33745371109     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.054049     Document Type: Article

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