Effects of quantitative trait loci for lipid phenotypes in the rat are influenced by age.

doi:10.1111/j.1440-1681.1998.tb02174.x

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Effects of quantitative trait loci for lipid phenotypes in the rat are influenced by age.

Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology - 1 Dec 1998

Kovács P, van den Brandt J, Klöting I

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1. Previous study on the backcross hybrids derived from a cross of the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR/Mol) and the spontaneously diabetic BB/OK rat demonstrated the existence of quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting lipid phenotypes on chromosome 4 and suggestive linkage of lipid phenotype...

Topics

Aging
Animals
Cholesterol
Chromosome Mapping
Crosses, Genetic
Diabetes Complications
Diabetes Mellitus
Genetic Linkage
Humans
Hypertension
Lipids
Phenotype
Quantitative Trait, Heritable
Rats
Triglycerides

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