Article
Identification of sex-specific quantitative trait loci controlling alcohol preference in C57BL/ 6 mice.
Nature genetics - 1 Jun 1996
Melo J A, Shendure J, Pociask K, Silver L M
Abstract excerpt
Mice from various inbred strains consume alcoholic beverages at highly reproducible and strain-specific levels. While most mice consume alcohol in moderate amounts, C57BL/6J animals exhibit sustained oral ingestion of high levels of alcohol in the presence of competing water and food. We now repo...
Topics
- Alcohol Drinking
- Alcoholism
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Crosses, Genetic
- Disease Models, Animal
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Genetics, Population
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
