DESCRIPTION:

QTL Associated with Carrageenan-induced inflammation. On Chromosome 10 with a LOD score= 4.9, p-value =5.00E-04. From a(n) F2 of F344xLEW

LABEL:

QTL-Cari1-Rat-Chr 10

SCORE TYPE:

Binary

DATE ADDED:

2015-06-10

DATE UPDATED:

2024-04-25

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

Listwak S, Barrientos RM, Koike G, Ghosh S, Gomez M, Misiewicz B, Sternberg EM

TITLE:

Identification of a novel inflammation-protective locus in the Fischer rat.

JOURNAL:

Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society None None, Vol 10, pp. 362-5

ABSTRACT:

1. Mamm Genome. 1999 Apr;10(4):362-5. Identification of a novel inflammation-protective locus in the Fischer rat. Listwak S(1), Barrientos RM, Koike G, Ghosh S, Gomez M, Misiewicz B, Sternberg EM. Author information: (1)Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior, CNE NIMH/NIH, Bldg. 10, Rm. 2D-46, 10, Center Dr., MSC 1284, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1284, USA. Inbred LEW/N rats are relatively susceptible, while histocompatible inbred F344/N rats are relatively resistant to development of a wide variety of inflammatory diseases in response to a range of pro-inflammatory stimuli. In a LEW/N vs. F344/N F2 intercross, we identified a quantitative trait locus (QTL) on Chr 10 that protects in a dominant fashion against the exudate volume component of innate inflammation in the F344/N rat, as well as a suggestive QTL on Chr 2 near the Fibrinogen cluster region. The exudate volume linkage region on Chr 10 may be similar to one of the multiple regions found to link to inflammatory arthritis phenotypes in other crosses. The suggestive linkage on Chr 2 has not been previously reported and does not seem to contribute to this phenotype in the same manner as the QTL on Chr 10. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the innate exudate volume trait is a sub-phenotype of more complex inflammatory phenotypes, such as arthritis, and genes within the Chr 10 linkage region could account for differences in this non-specific acute phase component of the inflammatory response. Since the rat Chr 10 exudate volume linkage region we have identified is syntenic with a region of human Chr 17 that has been shown to link to a variety of autoimmune/inflammatory diseases, including insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis, and psoriasis, identification of genes within this linkage region will shed light on genes relevant to the earliest inflammatory component and to susceptibility and resistance to such human autoimmune/inflammatory diseases. PMID: 10087293 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PUBMED: 10087293
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