Genetic interactions with sex make a relatively small contribution to the heritability of complex traits in mice.

The extent to which sex-specific genetic effects contribute to phenotypic variation is largely unknown. We applied a novel Bayesian method, sparse partitioning, to detect gene by sex (GxS) and gene by gene (GxG) quantitative loci (QTLs) in 1,900 outbred heterogeneous stock mice. In an analysis of 55...

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Main Authors: Jon Krohn, Doug Speed, Rupert Palme, Chadi Touma, Richard Mott, Jonathan Flint
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4014490?pdf=render