qtlbook (version 0.20)

myocard: Myocarditis intercross data

Description

Data from a mouse intercross experiment on myocarditis.

Usage

myocard

Format

An object of class cross. See qtl::read.cross() for details.

Details

An intercross between the H-2s congenic mice A.SW and B10.S, with 296 individuals (including both sexes). The mice were injected with purified murine cardiac myosin, and the area of infiltrated myocardium in heart sections was measured. The phenotype is the percent myocarditis.

References

Guler, M. L, Ligons, D. L., Wang, Y., Bianco, M., Broman, K. W. and Rose, N. R. (2005) Two autoimmune diabetes loci influencing T cell apoptosis control susceptibility to experimental autoimmune myocarditis. J. Immunol. 174: 2167--2173.

See Also

link{gutlength}, link{iron}, link{nf1} link{ovar}, link{trout}

Examples

data(myocard)
library(qtl)
plot(myocard)