Sex-specific gene expression in the BXD mouse liver

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 456-468

  Gatti, Daniel M ^a   Zhao, Ni ^a   Chesler, Elissa J ^b   Bradford, Blair U ^a   Shabalin, Andrey A ^c   Yordanova, Roumyana ^d   Lu, Lu ^e   Rusyn, Ivan ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BXD recombinant inbred mouse; Gene expression quantitative trait locus; Genetical genomics; Microarray

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; DBA 2 MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RECOMBINANT INBRED STRAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 77955722781     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00110.2009     Document Type: Article

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