Weak Epistasis Generally Stabilizes Phenotypes in a Mouse Intercross

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Tyler, Anna L ^a   Donahue, Leah Rae ^a   Churchill, Gary A ^a   Carter, Gregory W ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; ANIMAL; BONE; BONE DENSITY; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CROSS BREEDING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CROSSES, GENETIC; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; STEM CELL FACTOR;

EID: 84959898694     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005805     Document Type: Article

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