Identifying genetic loci and spleen gene coexpression networks underlying immunophenotypes in BXD recombinant inbred mice

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 244-253

  Lynch, Rachel M ^a   Naswa, Sudhir ^b   Rogers Jr , Gary L ^b   Kania, Stephen A ^c   Das, Suchita ^a   Chesler, Elissa J ^a,d   Saxton, Arnold M ^c   Langston, Michael A ^b   Voy, Brynn H ^a,c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acp1; B lymphocytes; CD4:CD8 ratio; eQTL; Ptprk; Quantitative trait loci; Quantitative trait transcript; T lymphocytes; T:B cell ratio

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RECOMBINANT INBRED STRAIN; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DBA MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

MUS;

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC LOCI; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN;

EID: 77952945496     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00020.2010     Document Type: Article

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