Genome-wide genetic association of complex traits in heterogeneous stock mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 879-887

  Valdar, William ^a   Solberg, Leah C ^a,d   Gauguier, Dominique ^a   Burnett, Stephanie ^a   Klenerman, Paul ^b   Cookson, William O ^a   Taylor, Martin S ^a   Rawlins, J Nicholas P ^c   Mott, Richard ^a   Flint, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMPLEX TRAIT; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MALE; MOUSE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 33746540478     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1840     Document Type: Article

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