Article
Obesity QTLs on mouse chromosomes 2 and 17.
Genomics - 1 Aug 1997
Taylor B A, Phillips S J
Abstract excerpt
The inheritance of obesity has been analyzed in an intercross between the mouse strains AKR/J and C57L/J. Two novel obesity quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been identified using the strategy of selective DNA pooling. One QTL affecting adiposity, Obq3, was mapped to a 39-cM segment near the mi...
Topics
- Adipose Tissue
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Blood Glucose
- Body Mass Index
- Body Weight
- Chromosome Mapping
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
