Contrasting genetic architectures in different mouse reference populations used for studying complex traits

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 775-791

  Buchner, David A ^a   Nadeau, Joseph H ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION STRAIN; EPIGENETICS; EPISTASIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HYBRID MOUSE STRAIN; INHERITANCE; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; CROSS BREEDING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC);

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84931836526     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.187450.114     Document Type: Review

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