Replication of small effect quantitative trait loci for behavioral traits facilitated by estimation of effect size from independent cohorts

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 404-412

  Bennett, B ^a   Carosone Link, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Effect size; Inbred mouse strains; QTL mapping; Recombinant inbred strains

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; INTERCROSS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RIGHTING REFLEX; SAMPLE SIZE;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; LOD SCORE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REFLEX; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33745713052     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2005.00174.x     Document Type: Article

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