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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Anand Champak Patel
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-3925 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Physiological genomics 20060328 3
Complex airway diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exhibit stereotyped traits (especially airway hyperreactivity and mucous cell metaplasia) that are variably expressed in each patient. Here, we used a mouse model for virus-induced long-term expression of these traits to determine whether individual traits can be genetically segregated and thereby linked to separate determinants. We showed that an F2 intercross population derived from susceptible and nonsusceptible ...[more]