Anxiety and fear in a cross of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice: Mapping overlapping and independent QTL for related traits

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 604-614

  Sokoloff, G ^a   Parker, C C ^a   Lim, J E ^b   Palmer, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Fear; Fear conditioning; Mice; Open field; QTL; QTL modeling

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED INTERCROSS LINE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CHROMOSOME 1; DBA 2 MOUSE; FEAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSSES, GENETIC; FEAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

MUS;

EID: 79960030516     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2011.00699.x     Document Type: Article

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