Robust and Sensitive Analysis of Mouse Knockout Phenotypes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Karp, Natasha A ^a   Melvin, David ^a   Mott, Richard F ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE DATABASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICE; PHENOTYPE; REFERENCE VALUES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84871552302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052410     Document Type: Article

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