DESCRIPTION:

QTL associated with life span 1. This interval was obtained by using a fixed interval width of 25 Mbp around the peak marker (91263015)

LABEL:

QTL-Lifespan1-Mouse-Chr 9

SCORE TYPE:

Binary

DATE ADDED:

2012-04-02

DATE UPDATED:

2024-04-25

SPECIES:

URI:

http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/accession_report.cgi?id=MGI:2179244

AUTHORS:

Jackson AU, Galecki AT, Burke DT, Miller RA

TITLE:

Mouse loci associated with life span exhibit sex-specific and epistatic effects.

JOURNAL:

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences Jan 2002, Vol 57, pp. B9-B15

ABSTRACT:

We have looked for genetic predictors of life span in a sibship of mice created as a four-way cross among inbred grandparental strains BALB/cJ, C57BL/6J, C3H/HeJ, and DBA/2J. To minimize the potential confounding effects of loci that influence early-life illnesses only, we conducted two analyses: one involving all the mice, and the other using a data set from which the first 20% of the deaths were excluded. The two strongest associations reach experimentwise significance levels (p <.01) when tested on the 80% of the mice with the longest life spans. Surprisingly, three of the four strongest associations showed sex-specific effects, with an influence on life span of either male or female mice, but not both. Epistatic interactions among the loci were also identified. The life-span effect of a locus on chromosome 10 (D10Mit15) exhibited epistatic interactions with loci on chromosomes 9 and 16 (D9Mit10 and D16Mit182). In a second example, a locus on chromosome 12 (D12Mit167) depended on the specific combination of alleles inherited from both male and female parents. Our results show that the common laboratory mouse strains are polymorphic at loci that produce substantial differences in life span and that these effects can be sex specific and conditional on alleles inherited at other loci. PUBMED: 11773201
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