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Gender-influenced obesity QTLs identified in a cross involving the KK type II diabetes-prone mouse strain.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Oct 1999
Taylor B A, Tarantino L M, Phillips S J
Abstract excerpt
The inheritance of adiposity and related traits has been investigated in the obese, diabetes-prone KK/HlLt (KK) and the lean, normoglycemic C57BL/6J (B6) mouse strains, their F(1) hybrids, and a large intercross generation. Adiposity index (AI) was defined as the sum of four fat depot weights divided by body weight. Both male and female KK mice were obese, but AI values averaged twofold higher in females than in...
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