Exercise and diet affect quantitative trait loci for body weight and composition traits in an advanced intercross population of mice.

ABSTRACT: Driven by the recent obesity epidemic, interest in understanding the complex genetic and environmental basis of body weight and composition is great. We investigated this by searching for quantitative trait loci (QTLs) affecting a number of weight and adiposity traits in a G(10) advanced intercross population produced from crosses of mice in inbred strain C57BL/6J with those in a strain selected for high voluntary wheel running. The mice in this population were fed either a high-fat or a control diet throughout the study and also measured for four exercise traits prior to death, allowing us to test for pre- and postexercise QTLs as well as QTL-by-diet and QTL-by-exercise interactions. Our genome scan uncovered a number of QTLs, of which 40% replicated QTLs previously found for similar trai

SUBMITTER: Leamy LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3544482 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature