Browsing Duke Faculty Scholarship by Subject "quantitative trait loci"

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Principal-component-based multivariate regression for genetic association studies of metabolic syndrome components

Dellinger, Andrew (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Background: Quantitative traits often underlie risk for complex diseases. For example, weight and body mass index (BMI) underlie the human abdominal obesity-metabolic syndrome. Many attempts have been made to identify ...
Two Genes on A/J Chromosome 18 Are Associated with Susceptibility to Staphylococcus aureus Infection by Combined Microarray and QTL Analyses

Ahn, Sun-Hee; Deshmukh, Hitesh; Rude, Thomas; Zaas, Dr Aimee; Lamlertthon, Prof Supaporn; Sharma-Kuinkel, Batu K.; Fowler, Vance Jr. (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Although it has recently been shown that A/J mice are highly susceptible to Staphylococcus aureus sepsis as compared to C57BL/6J, the specific genes responsible for this differential phenotype are unknown. Using chromosome ...