A meta-analysis of QTL for diabetes-related traits in rodents

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-53

  Schmidt, Christian ^a   Gonzaludo, Nina P ^a   Strunk, Sarah ^a   Dahm, Stefan ^a   Schuchhardt, Johannes ^b   Kleinjung, Frank ^b   Wuschke, Stefan ^a   Joost, Hans Georg ^a   Al Hasani, Hadi ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b MICRODISCOVERY GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diabesity; Genomewide scan; Hidden Markov model; Quantitative trait loci; Truncated product method

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 9; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAT; RODENT; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INBREEDING; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SYNTENY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENOME; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INBREEDING; INSULIN; MICE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RATS; RODENTIA; SYNTENY;

EID: 47249120899     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00267.2007     Document Type: Article

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