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DNA variation and brain region-specific expression profiles exhibit different relationships between inbred mouse strains: implications for eQTL mapping studies

Iiris Hovatta3,1,2, Matthew A Zapala4,5, Ron S Broide6, Eric E Schadt7, Ondrej Libiger5, Nicholas J Schork4,5, David J Lockhart8 and Carrolee Barlow9,1*

Author Affiliations

1 The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Laboratory of Genetics, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

2 National Public Health Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290 Helsinki, Finland

3 INSERM U513, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Faculté de Médecine, 8 rue du Général Sarrail, Créteil 94010 cedex, France

4 Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

5 Polymorphism Research Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

6 Neurome Inc., 11149 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

7 Rosetta Inpharmatics Inc., 401 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA

8 Amicus Therapeutics, 6 Ceder Brook Drive, Cranbury, NJ 08512, USA

9 BrainCells Inc., 10835 Road to the Cure, San Diego, CA 92121, USA

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R25 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-2-r25

Published: 26 February 2007

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Additional data file 1:

This file contains F statistics and P values for brain region, strain, and interaction effects from the multiple regression model and two-way ANOVA; only genes that scored as 'Present' in at least one file are included.

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Additional data file 2:

This table shows the number of strain-specific and brain region-specific probe sets with genetic cis-associations after removing probe sets with putative polymorphisms using a detection algorithm.

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Additional data file 3:

This file includes detailed methods used in the microarray data pre-processing.

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Additional data file 4:

This file contains the SNP marker positions and genotypes.

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Additional data file 5:

This file contains the genomic start and end positions of genes used in the eQTL analysis.

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