Strategies for map** and cloning quantitative trait genes in rodents

J Flint, W Valdar, S Shifman, R Mott - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005‏ - nature.com
Over the past 15 years, more than 2,000 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been identified in
crosses between inbred strains of mice and rats, but less than 1% have been characterized …

Maintenance of ancestral complexity and non-metazoan genes in two basal cnidarians

U Technau, S Rudd, P Maxwell, PMK Gordon… - TRENDS in …, 2005‏ - cell.com
Cnidarians are among the simplest extant animals; however EST analyses reveal that they
have a remarkably high level of genetic complexity. In this article, we show that the full …

Subspecific origin and haplotype diversity in the laboratory mouse

H Yang, JR Wang, JP Didion, RJ Buus, TA Bell… - Nature …, 2011‏ - nature.com
Here we provide a genome-wide, high-resolution map of the phylogenetic origin of the
genome of most extant laboratory mouse inbred strains. Our analysis is based on the …

A sequence-based variation map of 8.27 million SNPs in inbred mouse strains

KA Frazer, E Eskin, HM Kang, MA Bogue, DA Hinds… - Nature, 2007‏ - nature.com
A dense map of genetic variation in the laboratory mouse genome will provide insights into
the evolutionary history of the species and lead to an improved understanding of the …

On the subspecific origin of the laboratory mouse

H Yang, TA Bell, GA Churchill… - Nature …, 2007‏ - nature.com
The genome of the laboratory mouse is thought to be a mosaic of regions with distinct
subspecific origins. We have developed a high-resolution map of the origin of the laboratory …

The genetic landscape of type 2 diabetes in mice

SM Clee, AD Attie - Endocrine reviews, 2007‏ - academic.oup.com
Inbred mouse strains provide genetic diversity comparable to that of the human population.
Like humans, mice have a wide range of diabetes-related phenotypes. The inbred mouse …

Genetic dissection of a behavioral quantitative trait locus shows that Rgs2 modulates anxiety in mice

B Yalcin, SAG Willis-Owen, J Fullerton, A Meesaq… - Nature …, 2004‏ - nature.com
Here we present a strategy to determine the genetic basis of variance in complex
phenotypes that arise from natural, as opposed to induced, genetic variation in mice. We …

Genetic variation in the zebrafish

V Guryev, MJ Koudijs, E Berezikov… - Genome …, 2006‏ - genome.cshlp.org
Although zebrafish was introduced as a laboratory model organism several decades ago
and now serves as a primary model for developmental biology, there is only limited data on …

A high-resolution map of segmental DNA copy number variation in the mouse genome

TA Graubert, P Cahan, D Edwin, RR Selzer… - PLoS …, 2007‏ - journals.plos.org
Submicroscopic (less than 2 Mb) segmental DNA copy number changes are a recently
recognized source of genetic variability between individuals. The biological consequences …

Collaborative Cross mice and their power to map host susceptibility to Aspergillus fumigatus infection

C Durrant, H Tayem, B Yalcin, J Cleak… - Genome …, 2011‏ - genome.cshlp.org
The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a genetic reference panel of recombinant inbred lines of
mice, designed for the dissection of complex traits and gene networks. Each line is …