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Diet effects on weight gain and body composition in high growth (hg/hg) mice.
Physiological genomics - 29 Jun 2000
Corva P M, Medrano J F
Abstract excerpt
Nongenetic factors such as nutrition modulate the effects of genes responsible for overgrowth in animals. The goal of this study was to examine the importance of genotype x diet interactions on the effects of a major locus that regulates growth in the mouse. We have examined the phenotype of high growth (hg), a partially recessive autosomal locus that increases growth rate and mature body size. C57BL/6J (C57) and...
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