The contribution of epistatic pleiotropy to the genetic architecture of covariation among polygenic traits in mice

Evolution and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 468-476

  Wolf, Jason B ^a   Pomp, Daniel ^b   Eisen, Eugene J ^c   Cheverud, James M ^d   Leamy, Larry J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b IL   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BONE; EPISTASIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; PLEIOTROPY; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BONE; FEMALE; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INBREEDING; LIMB; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; ORGAN SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; ORGAN SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33747619846     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00120.x     Document Type: Article

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