QTL mapping for genetic determinants of lipoprotein cholesterol levels in combined crosses of inbred mouse strains

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1780-1790

  Wittenburg, Henning ^a,b,c   Lyons, Malcolm A ^a,d   Li, Renhua ^a   Kurtz, Ulrike ^c   Wang, Xiaosong ^a   Mössner, Joachim ^c   Churchill, Gary A ^a   Carey, Martin C ^b   Paigen, Beverly ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abca1; Abcg5; Abcg8; High density lipoprotein; Low density lipoprotein; Quantitative trait locus

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 5; GALLSTONE FORMATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33747146438     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M500544-JLR200     Document Type: Article

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