Evaluation of LEXF/FXLE rat recombinant inbred strains for genetic dissection of complex traits

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 335-342

  Voigt, Birger ^a   Kuramoto, Takashi ^a   Mashimo, Tomoji ^a   Tsurumi, Toshiko ^a   Sasaki, Yoshiyuki ^b   Hokao, Ryoji ^b   Serikawa, Tadao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute for Animal Reproduction   (Japan)

Author keywords

Physiological traits; Quantitative trait locus mapping; Rattus norvegicus; Recombinant inbred rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RECOMBINANT INBRED STRAIN; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 40149089440     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00158.2007     Document Type: Article

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