Cardiac mass and cardiomyocyte size are governed by different genetic loci on either autosomes or chromosome Y in recombinant inbred mice

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 176-182

  Llamas, Bastien ^a   Bélanger, Sonia ^a   Picard, Sylvie ^a   Deschepper, Christian F ^a  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac hypertrophy; Cardiovascular genomics; Linkage analysis; Quantitative trait locus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART SIZE; INBRED STRAIN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; Y CHROMOSOME;

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EID: 35548932508     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00072.2007     Document Type: Article

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