Obesity study in transgenic and knockout animals

ABSTRACT: A major task in dissecting the genetics of complex traits is to identify causal genes for disease phenotypes. We previously developed a method to infer causal relationships among genes through the integration of DNA variation, gene transcription, and phenotypic information. Here we validated our method through the characterization of transgenic and knockout mouse models of candidate genes that were predicted to be causal for abdominal obesity. Perturbation of eight out of the nine genes, with Gas7, Me1 and Gpx3 being novel, resulted in significant changes in obesity related traits. Liver expression signatures revealed alterations in common metabolic pathways and networks contributing to abdominal obesity and overlapped with a macrophage-enriched metabolic network module that is highly associated with metabolic traits in mice and humans. Integration of gene expression in the design and analysis of traditional F2 intercross studies allows high confidence prediction of causal genes, and identification of involved pathways and networks. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE11991: Liver gene expression profiling of lipoprotein lipase heterozygous knockout mice GSE11992: Liver gene expression profiling of cytosolic malic enzyme knockout mice GSE11993: Liver gene expression profiling of zinc finger binding protein 90 (Zfp90) transgenic mice GSE11994: Liver gene expression profiling of transforming growth factor beta receptor 2 heterozygous knockout (Tgfbr2+/-) mice GSE11995: Liver gene expression profiling of complement component 3a receptor 1 knockout (C3ar1-/-) mice GSE11996: Gas7 male transgenic liver expression vs FVB male wildtype control GSE11997: Gpx3 male transgenic liver expression vs B6/DBA male wildtype control GSE11998: Gyk female heterozygous liver expression vs C57Bl/6J female wildtype control GSE11999: Lactb male transgenic liver expression vs FVB male wildtype control Refer to individual Series

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Josh Deignan 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-12000 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress