Strain background effects and genetic modifiers of hearing in mice

Brain Research

Volumn 1091, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-88

  Johnson, Kenneth R ^a   Zheng, Qing Yin ^a   Noben Trauth, Konrad ^b  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related hearing loss; AHL; Digenic inheritance; Genetic background; Inbred mouse strain; Modifier gene; QTL

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BACKCROSSING; CONGENIC STRAIN; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INBRED STRAIN; INNER EAR DISEASE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; GENOTYPE; HEARING; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS;

EID: 33745586553     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.02.021     Document Type: Review

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