Identification of candidate risk gene variations by whole-genome sequence analysis of four rat strains commonly used in inflammation research

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bäckdahl, Liselotte ^a   Ekman, Diana ^a   Jagodic, Maja ^a   Olsson, Tomas ^a   Holmdahl, Rikard ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disease associated SNVs; Multiple sclerosis; QTL; Rat genome; Rheumatoid arthritis; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 21 RECEPTOR; IL21R PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 21 RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DARK AGOUTI RAT; E3 RAT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTERLEUKIN 21 RECEPTOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PIEBALD VIROL GLAXO RAT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOP CODON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL ARTHRITIS; GENETICS; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INDEL MUTATION; INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INDEL MUTATION; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-21 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84901690963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-391     Document Type: Article

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