A QTL on chromosome 10 modulates cone photoreceptor number in the mouse retina

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3228-3236

  Whitney, Irene E ^a   Raven, Mary A ^a   Lu, Lu ^b   Williams, Robert W ^b   Reese, Benjamin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; ECTONUCLEOTIDE PYROPHOSPHATASE PHOSPHODIESTERASE 1; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATED KINASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME 10; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE MYB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RETINA CONE; A J MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COUNT; CHROMOSOME; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, MYB; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PYROPHOSPHATASES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 79959352442     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6693     Document Type: Article

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