High-diversity mouse populations for complex traits

MC Saul, VM Philip, LG Reinholdt, EJ Chesler - Trends in Genetics, 2019 - cell.com
Contemporary mouse genetic reference populations are a powerful platform to discover
complex disease mechanisms. Advanced high-diversity mouse populations include the …

Pleiotropy, epistasis and the genetic architecture of quantitative traits

TFC Mackay, RRH Anholt - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Pleiotropy (whereby one genetic polymorphism affects multiple traits) and epistasis
(whereby non-linear interactions between genetic polymorphisms affect the same trait) are …

Genomic investigation of 18,421 lines reveals the genetic architecture of rice

X Wei, M Chen, Q Zhang, J Gong, J Liu, K Yong… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Understanding how numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) shape phenotypic variation is an
important question in genetics. To address this, we established a permanent population of …

Genomes of the mouse collaborative cross

A Srivastava, AP Morgan, ML Najarian, VK Sarsani… - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a multiparent panel of recombinant inbred (RI)
mouse strains derived from eight founder laboratory strains. RI panels are popular because …

Male infertility is responsible for nearly half of the extinction observed in the mouse collaborative cross

JR Shorter, F Odet, DL Aylor, W Pan, CY Kao, CP Fu… - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The goal of the Collaborative Cross (CC) project was to generate and distribute over 1000
independent mouse recombinant inbred strains derived from eight inbred founders. With …

The long-term effects of genomic selection: 1. Response to selection, additive genetic variance, and genetic architecture

YCJ Wientjes, P Bijma, MPL Calus, BJ Zwaan… - Genetics Selection …, 2022 - Springer
Background Genomic selection has revolutionized genetic improvement in animals and
plants, but little is known about its long-term effects. Here, we investigated the long-term …

Epistasis: searching for interacting genetic variants using crosses

IM Ehrenreich - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Within quantitative genetics, the term “epistasis” is used to broadly describe situations in
which combinations of genetic variants show nonadditive phenotypic effects (Phillips 1998 …

High-throughput sleep phenoty** produces robust and heritable traits in Diversity Outbred mice and their founder strains

BT Keenan, RJ Galante, J Lian, P Simecek, DM Gatti… - Sleep, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives This study describes high-throughput phenoty** strategies for
sleep and circadian behavior in mice, including examinations of robustness, reliability, and …