DESCRIPTION:

Using 38 progeny from ISCS (Interval-specific congenic strains) lines 2 and 11 the mapping of Lore5 was refined to a region of mouse Chromosome 15 bounded by D15Mit84 (39987672 NCBI 37) and D15Mit121 (57990385 NCBI 37).

LABEL:

QTL-Lore5-Mouse-Chr 15

SCORE TYPE:

Binary

DATE ADDED:

2011-04-11

DATE UPDATED:

2020-05-06

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

Bennett B, Carosone-Link P, Beeson M, Gordon L, Phares-Zook N, Johnson TE

TITLE:

Genetic dissection of quantitative trait locus for ethanol sensitivity in long- and short-sleep mice.

JOURNAL:

Genes, brain, and behavior Aug 2008, Vol 7, pp. 659-68

ABSTRACT:

Interval-specific congenic strains (ISCS) allow fine mapping of a quantitative trait locus (QTL), narrowing its confidence interval by an order of magnitude or more. In earlier work, we mapped four QTL specifying differential ethanol sensitivity, assessed by loss of righting reflex because of ethanol (LORE), in the inbred long-sleep (ILS) and inbred short-sleep (ISS) strains, accounting for approximately 50% of the genetic variance for this trait. Subsequently, we generated reciprocal congenic strains in which each full QTL interval from ILS was bred onto the ISS background and vice versa. An earlier paper reported construction and results of the ISCS on the ISS background; here, we describe this process and report results on the ILS background. We developed multiple ISCS for each Lore QTL in which the QTL interval was broken into a number of smaller intervals. For each of the four QTL regions (chromosomes 1, 2, 11 and 15), we were successful in reducing the intervals significantly. Multiple, positive strains were overlapped to generate a single, reduced interval. Subsequently, this reduced region was overlaid on previous reductions from the ISS background congenics, resulting in substantial reductions in all QTL regions by approximately 75% from the initial mapping study. Genes with sequence or expression polymorphisms in the reduced intervals are potential candidates; evidence for these is presented. Genetic background effects can be important in detection of single QTL; combining this information with the generation of congenics on both backgrounds, as described here, is a powerful approach for fine mapping QTL. PUBMED: 18363857
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