The genetic basis of natural variation in Caenorhabditis elegans telomere length

Genetics

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 371-383

  Cook, Daniel E ^a   Zdraljevic, Stefan ^a   Tanny, Robyn E ^a   Seo, Beomseok ^c   Riccardi, David D ^d   Noble, Luke M ^d   Rockman, Matthew V ^d   Alkema, Mark J ^e   Braendle, Christian ^f   Kammenga, Jan E ^g   Wang, John ^h   Kruglyak, Leonid ^i,j   Félix, Marie Anne ^f   Lee, Junho ^a,c   Andersen, Erik C ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; QTL; Shelterin; Telomere length; Whole genome sequence

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTECTION OF TELOMERES 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DNA; TELOMERE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIATION; LONGEVITY; MICROBIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE LENGTH; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LONGEVITY; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84986321393     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.191148     Document Type: Article

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