Tissue-specific expression and regulation of sexually dimorphic genes in mice

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 995-1004

  Yang, Xia ^a   Schadt, Eric E ^b   Wang, Susanna ^a   Wang, Hui ^c   Arnold, Arthur P ^c   Ingram Drake, Leslie ^a   Drake, Thomas A ^a   Lusis, Aldons J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BINDING SITE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIVER; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33746681910     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.5217506     Document Type: Article

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