Congenic strains confirm aerobic running capacity quantitative trait loci on rat chromosome 16 and identify possible intermediate phenotypes

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-97

  Ways, Justin A ^a   Smith, Brian M ^a   Barbato, John C ^b   Ramdath, Ramona S ^a   Pettee, Krista M ^a   DeRaedt, Sarah J ^a   Allison, David C ^a   Koch, Lauren G ^c   Soon, Jin Lee ^a   Cicila, George T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal fat; Consomic; Subcutaneous abdominal fat; Treadmill endurance test; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 3; CONGENIC STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; GENE LOCATION; LIPID METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RUNNING; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; ENERGY METABOLISM; FASTING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIGLYCERIDES;

RATTUS;

EID: 34248175156     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00027.2006     Document Type: Article

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