Article
Mapping of mouse obesity genes: A generic approach to a complex trait.
The Journal of nutrition - 1 Sept 1997
Fisler J S, Warden C H
Abstract excerpt
Identification of genes underlying any complex trait such as obesity is an important and difficult problem in genetics. Traditional candidate gene approaches cannot be relied on to identify all of the genes influencing a complex trait, and positional cloning is very laborious. With the advent of...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Genetic Linkage
- Genotype
- Mice
- Models, Genetic
- Obesity
