Accounting for diet and age

Elife. 2022 Jul 15:11:e80890. doi: 10.7554/eLife.80890.

Abstract

The diet and age of mice can modulate how different genetic variants impact body weight, demonstrating the need to take context into account when performing genetic studies.

Keywords: diversity outbred mice; gene-environment interaction; genetics; genomics; heritability; longitudinal; mixed models; mouse; quantitative trait locus.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Diet*
  • Mice
  • Quantitative Trait Loci*