Association study by genetic clustering detects multiple inflammatory response loci in non-inbred mice

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 390-394

  Galvan, A ^a   Vorraro, F ^b   Cabrera, W ^b   Ribeiro, O G ^b   Starobinas, N ^b   Jensen, J R ^b   Dos Santos Carneiro, P ^b   De Franco, M ^b   Gao, X ^c   Ibaez O C M ^b   Dragani, T A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

heredity; Inflammation; mouse strains; QTL; SNPs

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MALE; MICE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 79960644426     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gene.2011.10     Document Type: Article

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