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Anxiety and fear in a cross of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice: mapping overlapping and independent QTL for related traits.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Jul 2011
Sokoloff G, Parker C C, Lim J E, Palmer A A
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Anxiety, like other psychiatric disorders, is a complex neurobehavioral trait, making identification of causal genes difficult. In this study, we examined anxiety-like behavior and fear conditioning (FC) in an F(2) intercross of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice. We identified numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) influencing anxiety-like behavior in both open field (OF) and FC tests. Many of these QTL were mapped back...
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