Genome-wide association for fear conditioning in an advanced intercross mouse line

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 437-448

  Parker, Clarissa C ^a   Sokoloff, Greta ^a   Cheng, Riyan ^a   Palmer, Abraham A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced intercross lines; Fear conditioning; Fear learning; Genome wide association; Post traumatic stress disorder; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA1; ALPHA AMIDATING ENZYME; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; DIAZEPAM BINDING INHIBITOR; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ADVANCED INTERCROSS LINE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B CELL TRANSLOCATION 2 GENE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAZEPAM BINDING INHIBITOR GENE; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING BEHAVIOR; GAMMA AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2 GENE; GAMMA AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR SUBUNIT BETA1 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; LY6 PLAUR DOMAIN CONTAINING 1 GENE; MALE; MOUSE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR 1 GENE; NEUROTROPHIC TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR TYPE 2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDYLGLYCINE ALPHA AMIDATING MONOOXYGENASE GENE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROTO ONCOGENE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REGULATOR OF G PROTEIN SIGNALING 14 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSSES, GENETIC; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84864630357     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-011-9524-8     Document Type: Article

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