| myocard {qtlbook} | R Documentation |
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.
Source
Noel R. Rose, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, nrrose@biostat.wisc.edu
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)