| First Author | Yalcin B | Year | 2005 |
| Journal | Genetics | Volume | 171 |
| Issue | 2 | Pages | 673-81 |
| PubMed ID | 16085706 | Mgi Jnum | J:102037 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:3606525 | Doi | 10.1534/genetics.104.028902 |
| Citation | Yalcin B, et al. (2005) Using progenitor strain information to identify quantitative trait nucleotides in outbred mice. Genetics 171(2):673-81 |
| abstractText | We have developed a fast and economical strategy for dissecting the genetic architecture of quantitative trait loci at a molecular level. The method uses two pieces of information: mapping data from crosses that involve more than two inbred strains and sequence variants in the progenitor strains within the interval containing a quantitative trait locus (QTL). By testing whether the strain distribution pattern in the progenitor strains is consistent with the observed genetic effect of the QTL we can assign a probability that any sequence variant is a quantitative trait nucleotide (QTN). It is not necessary to genotype the animals except at a skeleton of markers; the genotypes at all other polymorphisms are estimated by a multipoint analysis. We apply the method to a 4.8-Mb region on mouse chromosome 1 that contains a QTL influencing anxiety segregating in a heterogeneous stock and show that, under the assumption that a single QTN is present and lies in a region conserved between the human and mouse genomes, it is possible to reduce the number of variants likely to be the quantitative trait nucleotide from many thousands to <20. |
