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Highlighted References

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  1. Mulligan MK, Mozhui K, Prins P, Williams RW 2017 GeneNetwork: A Toolbox for Systems Genetics. In Systems Genetics, Methods in Molecular Biology 1488:75-120 [An updated primer in using GeneNetwork for molecular analysis of mouse and human cohorts.]

  2. Williams RW, Williams EG 2017 Resources for Systems Genetics. In Systems Genetics, Methods in Molecular Biology 1488:3-29. [This review is intended to help you when making the hard choices about types of resources to use in system genetic studies. The short answer: embrace diversity in your resources. The computational barriers to joint analysis are now minimal.]

  3. Williams RW 2009 Herding cats: the sociology of data integration. Frontier in Neuroscience 3(2):154-6. [An short but amusing commentary on predictive (someday perhaps even precision) medicine and how to get there using genetic reference populations such as the BXD and Collaborative Cross families.]

  4. Pinelli M, Carissimo A, Cutillo L, Lai CH, Mutarelli M, Moretti MN, Singh MV, Karali M, Carrella D, Pizzo M, Russo F, Ferrari S, Ponzin D, Angelini C, Banfi S, di Bernardo D 2016 An atlas of gene expression and gene co-regulation in the human retina.Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Jul 8;44(12):5773-84

    • RETINA database, and see the PDF. These data are now in GeneNetwork (Species = Human, Group = Retina).
  5. Williams EG, Wu Y, Pooja J, Dubuis S, Blattmann P, Argmann CA, Houten SM, Amariuta T, Wolski W, Zamboni N, Aebersold R, Auwerx J 2016 Systems proteomics and trans-omic integration illuminate new mechanisms in mitochondrial function. Science 352(6291):aad0189

  6. Sloan Z, Arends D, Broman KW, Centeno A, Furlotte N, Nijveen H, Yan L, Zhou X, Williams RW, Prins P (2016) GenetNetwork: framework for web-based genetics. The Journal of Open Source Software http://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00025 (http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.00025)

  7. Alam G, Miller DB, O'Callaghan JP, Lu L, Williams RW, Jones BC 2016 MPTP neurotoxicity is highly concordant between the sexes among BXD recombinant inbred mouse strains. Neurotoxicology in press PDF version

  8. Merkwirth C, Jovaisaite V, Durieux J, Matilainen O, Jordan SD, Quiros PM, Steffen KK, Williams EG, Mouchiroud L, Tronnes SU, Murillo V, Wolff SC, Shaw RJ, Auwerx J, Dillin A 2016 Two conserved histone demethylases regulate mitochondrial stress-induced longevity. Cell 165:1209-1223

  9. Wang X, Pandey AK, Mulligan MK, Williams EG, Mozhui K, Li Z, Jovaisaite V, Quarles LD, Xiao Z, Huang J, Capra JA, Chen Z, Taylor WL, Bastarache L, Niu X, Pollard KS, Ciobanu DC, Reznik AO, Tishkov AV, Zhulin IB, Peng J, Nelson SF, Denny JC, Auwerx J, Lu L, Williams RW 2016. Joint mouse-human phenome-wide association to test gene function and disease risk. Nature Communications 7:10464 [Best reference on the BXD family of strains and the wide range of phenotypes that have been generated over the past 40 years.]

  10. PDF version and the Supplementary Tables in one Excel file

  11. Xue Y, Li J, Yan L, Lu L, Liao FF 2015 Genetic variability to diet-induced hippocampal dysfunction in BXD recombinant inbred (RI) mouse strains. Behav Brain Res 292:83-94

  12. Chaum E, Winborn CS, Bhattacharya S 2015 Multilayered genetic and omics dissection of mitochondrial activity in a mouse reference population. Mamm Genome 26:210-221

  13. Cheng Q, Seltzer Z, Sima C, Lakschevitz FS, Glogauer M. 2015. Quantitative Trait Loci and Candidate Genes for Neutrophil Recruitment in Sterile Inflammation Mapped in AXB-BXA Recombinant Inbred Mice. PLoS One 10:e0124117

  14. Scott RE, Ghule PN, Stein JL, Stein GS 2015. Cell cycle gene expression networks discovered using systems biology: Significance in carcinogenesis. J Cell Physiol 230:2533-42

  15. Williams EG, Auwerx J 2015. The convergence of systems and reductionist approaches in complex trait analysis. Cell 162:23-32.

  16. Wu Y, Williams EG, Dubuis S, Mottis A, Jovaisaite V, Houten SM, Argmann CA, Faridi P, Wolski W, Kutalik Z, Zamboni N, Auwerx J, Aebersold R 2014. Multilayered genetic and omics dissection of mitochondrial activity in a mouse reference population. Cell 158:1415-1430

  17. Hayes SK, Hager R, Grencis RK (2014) Sex-dependent genetics effects on immune responses to parasitic nematodes. BMC Genomics 15:193

  18. Harenza JL, Muldoon PP, De Biasi M, Damaj MI, Miles MF (2014) Genetic variation within the Chrna7 gene modulates nicotine reward-like phenotypes in mice. Genes Brain Behav 13:213-225

  19. Ye R, Carneiro AM, Airey D, Sanders-Bush E, Williams RW, Lu L, Wang J, Zhang B, Blakely RD 2014. Evaluation of heritable determinants of blood and brain serotonin homeostasis using recombinant inbred mice. Genes Brain Behav. 13:247-260

  20. Houtkooper RH, Mouchiroud L, Ryu D, Moullan N, Katsyuba E, Knott G, Williams RW, Auwerx J 2013. Mitonuclear protein imbalance as a conserved longevity mechanism. Nature 497:451-457 PDF Version

Key References

The first section lists key technical papers that are appropriate references when citing GeneNetwork and WebQTL. The second section lists publications and other resources that have made use of GeneNetwork.

  1. Mulligan MK, Mozhui K, Prins P, Williams RW 2016. GeneNetwork – A toolbox for systems genetics. In Systems Genetics, Methods in Molecular Biology; Schughart K, Williams RW eds.; Humana Press, in press [This is a currently the most comprehensive protocol and guide (20 Mb) for GeneNetwork.] PDF Version

  2. Williams RW, Mulligan MK 2012. Genetic and molecular network analysis of behavior. Int Rev Neurobiol. 104:135-57. [Explains the use of GeneNetwork in behavioral neurogenetics]

  3. Williams EG, Auwerx J 2015. The convergence of systems and reductionist approaches in complex trait analysis. Cell 162:23-32. [Research into the genetic and environmental factors behind complex trait variation has traditionally been segregated into distinct scientific camps. The reductionist approach aims to decrypt phenotypic variability bit by bit, founded on the underlying hypothesis that genome-to-phenome relations are largely constructed from the additive effects of their molecular players. In contrast, the systems approach aims to examine large-scale interactions of many components simultaneously, on the premise that interactions in gene networks can be both linear and non-linear. Both approaches are complementary, and they are becoming increasingly intertwined due to developments in gene editing tools, omics technologies, and population resources. Together, these strategies are beginning to drive the next era in complex trait research, paving the way to improve agriculture and toward more personalized medicine.]

  4. Wang J, Williams RW, Manly KF (2003) WebQTL: Web-based complex trait analysis. Neuroinformatics 1: 299-308 Full Text PDF Version.[A good technical reference to WebQTL and GeneNetwork]

  5. Williams RW, Gu J, Qi S, Lu L (2003) The genetic structure of recombinant inbred mice: high-resolution consensus maps for complex trait analysis. Genome Biology 2(11)Full Text Version.[A detailed analysis of the genetics of recombinant inbred strains]

  6. Chesler EJ, Wang J, Lu L, Qu Y, Manly KF, Williams RW (2003) Genetic correlates of gene expression in recombinant inbred strains: a relational model to explore for neurobehavioral phenotypes. Neuroinformatics 1: 343-357.Full Text PDF Version. [Best reference regarding interpretation of genetic correlations.]

  7. Chesler EJ, Lu L, Wang J, Williams RW, Manly KF (2004) WebQTL: rapid exploratory analysis of gene expression and genetic networks for brain and behavior. Nature Neuroscience 7: 485-486.Full Text PDF Version [A short review]

  8. Chesler EJ, Williams RW (2004) Brain gene expression: genomics and genetics. International Review of Neurobiology 60:59-95. (DNA Arrays in Neurobiology, edited by MF Miles, Elsevier, Amsterdam). [A longer discussion, both statistical and conceptual, on the genetic analysis of gene expression and relations to higher order behavioral phenotypes]

  9. Bystrykh L, Weersing E, Dontje B, Sutton S, Pletcher MT, Wiltshire T, Su AI, Vellenga E, Wang J, Manly KF, Lu L, Chesler EJ, Alberts R, Jansen RC, Williams RW, Cooke M, de Haan G (2005) Uncovering regulatory pathways affecting hematopoietic stem cell function using "genetical genomics." Nature Genetics 37:225-232. [Please cite this article if you have used the GNF-Groningen hematopoietic stem cell data set.]

  10. Chesler EJ, Lu L, Shou S, Qu Y, Gu J, Wang J, Hsu HC, Mountz JD, Baldwin N, Langston MA, Threadgill DW, Manly KF, Williams RW (2005) Complex trait analysis of gene expression uncovers polygenic and pleiotropic networks that modulate nervous system function. Nature Genetics 37: 233-242. [Please cite this article if you have used one of the UTHSC brain data sets.]

  11. Damerval C, Maurice A, Josse JM, de Vienne D (1994) Quantitative trait loci underlying gene product variation: a novel perspective for analyzing regulation of genome expression. Genetics 137: 289-301 Full Text PDF Version [The first published paper on system genetics. Impressive; before its time.]

    [Damerval et al., 1994 abstract] A methodology to dissect the genetic architecture of quantitative variation of numerous gene products simultaneously is proposed. For each individual of a segregating progeny, proteins extracted from a given organ are separated using two-dimensional electrophoresis, and their amounts are estimated with a computer-assisted system for spot quantification. Provided a complete genetic map is available, statistical procedures allow determination of the number, effects and chromosomal locations of factors controlling the amounts of individual proteins. This approach was applied to anonymous proteins of etiolated coleoptiles of maize, in an F(2) progeny between two distant lines. The genetic map included both restriction fragment length polymorphism and protein markers. Minimum estimates of one to five unlinked regulatory factors were found for 42 of the 72 proteins analyzed, with a large diversity of effects. Dominance and epistasis interactions were involved in the control of 38% and 14% of the 72 proteins, respectively. Such a methodology might help understanding the architecture of regulatory networks and the possible adaptive or phenotypic significance of the polymorphism of the genes involved.

  12. Grisham W, Schottler NA, Valli-Marill J, Beck L, Beatty J (2010) Teaching bioinformatics and neuroinformatics by using free web-based tools. CBE--Life Sciences Education 9: 98-107 Full Text PDF Version

    • A terrific introduction to a wide range of bioinformatic resources, including GeneNetwork, that have been assembled as a coherent teaching module. A detailed student/instructor’s manual, PDFs of handouts, PowerPoint slides, and sample exams are available for free at http://mdcune.psych.ucla.edu/modules/bioinformatics.
    • Youtube videos of Dr. William Grisham teaching neurogenetics at UCLA
    • Part 1

    • Part 2

    • Part 3

    • Part 4

    • Part 5

  13. Grisham W (2009) Modular digitial course in undergraduate neuroscience education (MDCUNE): A website offering free digital tools for neuroscience educators. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education 8:A26-A31 Full Text PDF Version

    • An excellent example of how resources such as GeneNetwork and the Mouse Brain Library can be used in class room labs.

  14. Hübner N, Wallace CA, Zimdahl H, Petretto E, Schulz H, Maciver F, Mueller M, Hummel O, Monti J, Zidek V, Musilova A, Kren V, Causton H, Game L, Born G, Schmidt S, Muller A, Cook SA, Kurtz TW, Whittaker J, Pravenec M, Aitman TJ (2005) Integrated transcriptional profiling and linkage analysis for identification of genes underlying disease. Nature Genetics 37: 243-253. [Please cite this article if you have used one of the rat HXB kidney or peritoneal fat data sets.]

  15. Kang HM, Ye C, Eskin E (2008) Accurate discovery of expression quantitative trait loci under confounding from spurious and genuine regulatory hotspots. Genetics 180:1909-1925
    Full Text PDF Version. [An important method that can greatly improve the ability to resolve true genetic interactions in expression genetic studies.]

  16. Ljungberg K, Holmgren S, Carlborg O (2004) Simultaneous search for multiple QTL using the global optimization algorithm DIRECT. Bioinformatics 20:1887-1895. [Please review and cite this article if you have exploited the DIRECT pair-scan tool and output graphs in WebQTL.]

  17. Manly KF, Wang J, Williams RW (2005) Weighting by heritability for detection of quantitative trait loci with microarray estimates of gene expression. Genome Biology 6: R27 Full Text HTML and PDF Version. [Please cite this article if you have used one of the HWT (Heritability Weighted Transform) data sets.]

  18. Manly K, Williams RW (2001) WEBQTL—WWW service for mapping quantitative trait loci. International Mouse Genome Conference 15: 74. [First published abstract on WebQTL, presented Oct 2001, Edinburgh; also see 2002 CTC abstract]

  19. Taylor BA, Heiniger HJ, Meier H (1973) Genetic analysis of resistance to cadmium-induced teticular damage in mice. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 143:629-33 [This is one of the first full paper on the use of recombinant inbred strains in biomedical research and the first paper to use BXD lines of mice. The cdm locus that they mapped to distal Chr 3 was subsequently defined as the Slc38a8 metal testicular metal ion transporter. Full text

  20. Webster JA, Gibbs JR, Clarke J, Ray M, Zhang W, Holmans P, Rohrer K, Zhao A, Marlowe L, Kaleem M, McCorquodale DS 3rd, Cuello C, Leung D, Bryden L, Nath P, Zismann VL, Joshipura K, Huentelman MJ, Hu-Lince D, Coon KD, Craig DW, Pearson JV; NACC-Neuropathology Group, Heward CB, Reiman EM, Stephan D, Hardy J, Myers AJ (2009) Genetic control of human brain transcript expression in Alzheimer disease. Am J Hum Genet 84:445-58. [Please review and cite this article if you have used the HUMAN data set by Myers and colleagues in GeneNetwork.]

  21. Williams RW, Shou S, Lu L, Wang J, Manly KF, Hsu HC, Mountz J, Threadgill DW (2002) Genomic analysis of transcriptional networks: combining microarrays with complex trait analysis. Complex Trait Consortium 1 [One of the first published abstracts on system genetic analysis of microarray data sets, presented May 2002.]

  22. Zhang B, Schmoyer D, Kirov S, Snoddy J (2004) GOTree Machine (GOTM): a web-based platform for interpreting sets of interesting genes using Gene Ontology hierarchies. BMC Bioinformatics 5:16. [This reference describes GOTM--the predecessor of WebGestalt that is now used to analyze sets of covarying transcripts.]

GeneNetwork (2019) (not complete)

  1. Théberge ET, Baker JA, Dubose C, Boyle JK, Balce K, Goldowitz D, Hamre KM (2019) Genetic influences on the amount of cell death in the neural tube of BXD mice exposed to acute ethanol at midgestation. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 43:439-452

  2. Roy S, Zaman KI, Williams RW, Homayouni R (2019 Evaluation of Sirtuin-3 probe quality and co-expressed genes using literature cohesion. BMC Bioinformatics 20(Suppl 2):104

GeneNetwork (2018) (not complete)

  1. Ashbrook DG, Mulligan MK, Williams RW Post-genomic behavioral genetics: From revolution to routine (2018) Genes Brain Behav 17:e12441

  2. de Vries M, Faiz A, Woldhuis RR, Postma DS, de Jong TV, Sin DD, Bossé Y, Nickle DC, Guryev V, Timens W, van den Berge M, Brandsma CA (2018) Lung tissue gene-expression signature for the ageing lung in COPD. Thorax 73:609-617

  3. Diessler S, Jan M, Emmenegger Y, Guex N, Middleton B, Skene DJ, Ibberson M, Burdet F, Götz L, Pagni M, Sankar M, Liechti R, Hor CN, Xenarios I, Franken P (2018) A systems genetics resource and analysis of sleep regulation in the mouse. PLoS Biology 16(8):e2005750

  4. King R, Struebing FL, Li Y, Wang J, Koch AA, Cooke Bailey JN, Gharahkhani P; International Glaucoma Genetics Consortium; NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium, MacGregor S, Allingham RR, Hauser MA, Wiggs JL, Geisert EE (2018) Genomic locus modulating corneal thickness in the mouse identifies POU6F2 as a potential risk of developing glaucoma. PLoS Genet 14:e1007145

  5. Lu Y, Zhou D, King R, Zhu S, Simpson CL, Jones BC, Zhang W, Geisert EE, Lu L (2018) The genetic dissection of Myo7a gene expression in the retinas of BXD mice. Mol Vis 24:115-126

  6. Struebing FL, King R, Li Y, Cooke Bailey JN; NEIGHBORHOOD consortium, Wiggs JL, Geisert EE (2018) Genomic loci modulating retinal ganglion cell death following elevated IOP in the mouse. Exp Eye Res 169:61-67

GeneNetwork (2017) (not complete)

  1. Baker JA, Li J, Zhou D, Yang M, Cook MN, Jones BC, Mulligan MK, Hamre KM, Lu L (2017) Analyses of differentially expressed genes after exposure to acute stress, acute ethanol, or a combination of both in mice. Alcohol 58:139-151

  2. Baud A, Mulligan MK, Casale FP, Ingels JF, Bohl CJ, Callebert J, Launay JM, Krohn J, Legarra A, Williams RW, Stegle O (2017) Genetic variation in the social environment contributes to health and disease. PLoS Genet 13(1):e1006498

  3. Brockmann GA, Arends D, Heise S, Dogan A (2017) Systems genetics of obesity. Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1488:481-497

  4. Grisham W, Brumberg JC, Gilbert T, Lanyon L, Williams RW, Olivo R (2017) Teaching with Big Data: Report from the 2016 Society for Neuroscience Teaching Workshop. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ 16:A68-A76

  5. Jones BC, Jellen LC (2017) Systems genetics analysis of iron and its regulation in brain and periphery. Methods Mol Biol 1488:467-480

  6. Lopez MF, Miles MF, Williams RW, Becker HC (2017) Variable effects of chronic intermittent ethanol exposure on ethanol drinking in a genetically diverse mouse cohort. Alcohol 58:73-82

  7. Parker CC, Dickson PE, Philip VM, Thomas M, Chesler EJ (2017) Curr Protoc Neurosci 79:8.39.1-8.39.20

  8. Porcu P, O'Buckley TK, Lopez MF, Becker HC, Miles MF, Williams RW, Morrow AL (2017) Initial genetic dissection of serum neuroactive steroids following chronic intermittent ethanol across BXD mouse strains. Alcohol 58:107-125

  9. Rinker JA, Fulmer DB, Trantham-Davidson H, Smith ML, Williams RW, Lopez MF, Randall PK, Chandler LJ, Miles MF, Becker HC, Mulholland PJ (2017) Differential potassium channel gene regulation in BXD mice reveals novel targets for pharmacogenetic therapies to reduce heavy alcohol drinking. Alcohol 58:33-45

  10. van der Vaart AD, Wolstenholme JT, Smith ML, Harris GM, Lopez MF, Wolen AR, Becker HC, Williams RW, Miles MF (2017) The allostatic impact of chronic ethanol on gene expression: A genetic analysis of chronic intermittent ethanol treatment in the BXD cohort. Alcohol 58:93-106

GeneNetwork (2016)

  1. Alam G, Miller DB, O'Callaghan JP, Lu L, Williams RW, Jones BC (2016) MPTP neurotoxicity is highly concordant between the sexes among BXD recombinant inbred mouse strains. Neurotoxicology 55:40-7

  2. Chintalapudi SR, Wang X, Li H, Lau YH, Williams RW, Jablonski MM (2016) Genetic and immunohistochemical analysis of HSPA5 in mouse and human retinas. Molecular Vision 22:1318-1331

  3. Lu H, Lu L, Williams RW, Jablonski MM (2016) Iris transillumination defect and its gene modulators do not correlate with intraocular pressure in the BXD family of mice. Molecular Vision 22:224-233

  4. Merkwirth C, Jovaisaite V, Durieux J, Matilainen O, Jordan SD, Quiros PM, Steffen KK, Williams EG, Mouchiroud L, Tronnes SU, Murillo V, Wolff SC, Shaw RJ, Auwerx J, Dillin A (2016) Two conserved histone demethylases regulate mitochondrial stress-induced longevity. Cell 165:1209-1223

  5. Neuner SM, Garfinkel BP, Wilmott LA, Ignatowska-Jankowska BM, Citri A, Orly J, Lu L, Overall RW, Mulligan MK, Kempermann G, Williams RW, O'Connell KM, Kaczorowski CC (2016) Systems genetics identifies Hp1bp3 as a novel modulator of cognitive aging. Neurobiol Aging 46:58-67

  6. Shi X, Walter NA, Harkness JH, Neve KA, Williams RW, Lu L, Belknap JK, Eshleman AJ, Phillips TJ, Janowsky A (2016) Genetic polymorphisms affect mouse and human Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 1 function. PLoS One 11(3):e0152581

  7. Schultz NG, Ingels J, Hillhouse A, Wardwell K, Chang PL, Cheverud JM, Lutz C, Lu L, Williams RW, Dean MD (2016) The genetic basis of baculum size and shape variation in mice. G3 (Bethesda) 6(5):1141-1151

  8. Sloan Z, Arends D, Broman KW, Centeno A, Furlotte N, Nijveen H, Yan L, Zhou X, Williams RW, Prins P (2016) GenetNetwork: framework for web-based genetics. The Journal of Open Source Software http://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00025 (http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.00025)

  9. Wang X, Pandey AK, Mulligan MK, Williams EG, Mozhui K, Li Z, Jovaisaite V, Quarles LD, Xiao Z, Huang J, Capra JA, Chen Z, Taylor WL, Bastarache L, Niu X, Pollard KS, Ciobanu DC, Reznik AO, Tishkov AV, Zhulin IB, Peng J, Nelson SF, Denny JC, Auwerx J, Lu L, Williams RW (2016) Joint mouse-human phenome-wide association to test gene function and disease risk. Nat Commun 7:10464

  10. Williams EG, Wu Y, Jha P, Dubuis S, Blattmann P, Argmann CA, Houten SM, Amariuta T, Wolski W, Zamboni N, Aebersold R, Auwerx J (2016) Systems proteomics of liver mitochondria function. Science 352(6291):aad0189

GeneNetwork (2015)

  1. Ashbrook DG, Gini B, Hager R (2015) Genetic variation in offspring indirectly influences the quality of maternal behaviour in mice. eLIFE 4:e11814

  2. Ashbrook DG, Williams RW, Lu L, Hager R (2015) A cross-species genetic analysis identifies candidate genes for mouse anxiety and human bipolar disorder. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 9:171

  3. Chaum E, Winborn CS, Bhattacharya S (2015) Genomic regulation of senescence and innate immunity signaling in the retinal pigment epithelium. Mammalian Genome 26:210-221 Full text

  4. Cheng Q, Seltzer Z, Sima C, Lakschevitz FS, Glogauer M (2015) Quantitative trait loci and candidate genes for neutrophil recruitment in sterile inflammation mapped in AXB-BXA recombinant inbred mice. PLoS One 10:e0124117

  5. Cook MN, Baker JA, Heldt SA, Williams RW, Hamre KM, Lu L (2015) Identification of candidate genes that underlie the QTL on chromosome 1 that mediates genetic differences in stress-ethanol interactions. Physiol Genomics 47:308-317

  6. Delprato A, Bonheur B, Algéo MP, Rosay P, Lu L, Williams RW, Crusio WE (2015) Systems genetic analysis of hippocampal neuroanatomy and spatial learning in mice. Genes Brain Behav 14(8):591-606

  7. Ferguson B, Ram R, Handoko HY, Mukhopadhyay P, Muller HK, Soyer HP, Morahan G, Walker GJ (2015) Melanoma susceptibility as a complex trait: genetic variation controls all stages of tumor progression. Oncogene 34:2879-86

  8. King R, Lu L, Williams RW, Geisert EE. (2015) Transcriptome networks in the mouse retina: An exon level BXD RI database. Mol Vis 21:1235-1251

  9. Lee J, Seol MY, Jeong S, Kwon HJ, Lee CR, Ku CR, Kang SW, Jeong JJ, Shin DY, Nam KH, Lee EJ, Chung WY, Jo YS (2015) KSR1 is coordinately regulated with Notch signaling and oxidative phosphorylation in thyroid cancer. J Mol Endocrinol 54:115-124

  10. Padula AE, Griffin WC 3rd, Lopez MF, Nimitvilai S, Cannady R, McGuier NS, Chesler EJ, Miles MF, Williams RW, Randall PK, Woodward JJ, Becker HC, Mulholland PJ (2015) KCNN genes that encode small-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channels influence alcohol and drug addiction. Neuropsychopharmacology 40:1928-1939

  11. Scott RE, Ghule PN, Stein JL, Stein GS (2015) Cell cycle gene expression networks discovered using systems biology: Significance in carcinogenesis. J Cell Physiol 230:2533-42

  12. Shea CJ, Carhuatanta KA, Wagner J, Bechmann N, Moore R, Herman JP, Jankord R (2015). Variable impact of chronic stress on spatial learning and memory in BXD mice. Physiol Behav. 150:69-77 Full text

  13. Xue Y, Li J, Yan L, Lu L, Liao FF (2015) Genetic variability to diet-induced hippocampal dysfunction in BXD recombinant inbred (RI) mouse strains. Behav Brain Res 292:83-94

  14. Williams EG, Auwerx J (2015) The convergence of systems and reductionist approaches in complex trait analysis. Cell 162:23-32.

GeneNetwork (2014)

  1. Ashbrook GN, Delprato A, Grellmann C, Klein M, Wetzel R, Overall RW, Badea A (2014) Transcript co-variance with Nestin in two mouse genetic reference populations identifies Lef1 as a novel candidate regulator of neural precursor cell proliferation in the adult hippocampus. Frontiers in Neuroscience in press

  2. Ashbrook DG, Williams RW, Lu L, Stein JL, Hibar DP, Nichols TE, Medland SE, Thompson PM, Hager R. (2014) Joint genetic analysis of hippocampal size in mouse and human identifies a novel gene linked to neurodegenerative disease. BMC Genomics 15:850

  3. Carhuatanta KA, Shea CJ, Herman JP, Jankord R (2014. Unique genetic loci identified for emotional behavior in control and chronic stress conditions. Front Behav Neurosci 8:341

  4. Emery FD, Parvathareddy J, Pandey AK, Cui Y, Williams RW, Miller MA (2014) Genetic control of weight loss during pneumonic Burkholderia pseudomallei infection. Pathog Dis 71:249-264

  5. Goldowitz D, Lussier AA, Boyle JK, Wong K, Lattimer SL, Dubose C, Lu L, Kobor MS, Hamre KM (2014) Molecular pathways underpinning ethanol-induced neurodegeneration. Front Genet 5:203

  6. Graybeal C, Bachu M, Mozhui K, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Sagalyn E, Williams RW, Holmes A (2014) Strains and stressors: an analysis of touchscreen learning in genetically diverse mouse strains. PLoS One 9(2):e87745

  7. Hall RA, Liebe R, Hochrath K, Kazakov A, Alberts R, Laufs U, Böhm M, Fischer HP, Williams RW, Schughart K, Weber SN, Lammert F (2014) Systems genetics of liver fibrosis: Identification of fibrogenic and expression quantitative trait loci in the BXD murine reference population.PLoS One 9(2):e89279

  8. Harenza JL, Muldoon PP, Biasi MD, Imad Damaj M, Miles MF (2014) Genetic variation within the Chrna7 gene modulates nicotine reward-like phenotypes in mice. Genes, Brain & Behavior 13:213-225

  9. Hayes SK, Hager R, Grencis RK (2014) Sex-dependent genetics effects on immune responses to parasitic nematodes. BMC Genomics 15:193

  10. Huang Y, Zhu X, Wang L, Liu X, Lu L, Gu W, Jiao Y (2014) Genome wide analysis of sex difference in gene expression profiles of bone formations using sfx mice and BXD RI strains. ScientificWorldJournal 2014:584910

  11. Hasenfuss SC, Bakiri L, Thomsen MK, Williams EG, Auwerx J, Wagner EF (2014) Regulation of steatohepatitis and PPARγ signaling by distinct AP-1 dimers. Cell Metab. 2014 Jan 7;19(1):84-95.

  12. Jones BC, O'Callaghan JP, Lu L, Williams RW, Alam G, Miller DB (2014) Genetic correlational analysis reveals no association between MPP+ and the severity of striatal dopaminergic damage following MPTP treatment in BXD mouse strains. Neurotoxicol Teratol pii: S0892-0362(14)00159-7

  13. Keeley PW, Whitney IE, Madsen NR, St John AJ, Borhanian S, Leong SA, Williams RW, Reese BE (2014) Independent genomic control of neuronal number across retinal cell types. Dev Cell 30:103-109

  14. Keeley PW, Zhou C, Lu L, Williams RW, Melmed S, Reese BE (2014) Pituitary tumor-transforming gene 1 regulates the patterning of retinal mosaics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111:9295-

  15. Kweon KH, Lee CR, Jung SJ, Ban EJ, Kang SW, Jeong JJ, Nam KH, Jo YS, Lee J, Chung WY (2014) Sirt1 induction confers resistance to etoposide-induced genotoxic apoptosis in thyroid cancers. Int J Oncol 45:2065-2075

  16. Loos M, Mueller T, Gouwenberg Y, Wijnands R, van der Loo RJ, Birchmeier C, Smit AB, Spijker S (2014) Neuregulin-3 in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex regulates impulsive action. Biol Psychiatry 76:648-655

  17. Lotan A, Fenckova M, Fralten J, Alttoa A, Dixson L, Williams RW, van der Voet M (2014) Neuroinformatic analyses of common and distinct genetic components associate with major neuropsychiatric disorders. Frontiers in Neuroscience 8:331

  18. McLachlan SM, Aliesky H, Banuelos B, Magana J, Williams RW, Rapoport B. (2014) Immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region and major histocompatibility region genes are linked to induced graves' disease in females from two very large families of recombinant inbred mice. Endocrinology 155:4094-4103

  19. McLachlan SM, Hamidi S, Aliesky H, Williams RW, Rapoport B (2014) Sex, genetics and the control of thyroxine and thyrotropin in mice. Thyroid 24:1080-1087

  20. Muldoon PP, Jackson KJ, Perez E, Harenza JL, Molas S, Rais B, Anwar H, Zaveri NT, Maldonado R, Maskos U, McIntosh JM, Dierssen M, Miles MF, Chen X, De Biasi M, Damaj MI (2014) The alpha3beta4* nicotinic ACh receptor subtype mediates physical dependence to morphine: mouse and human studies. Br J Pharmacol 171:3845-3857

  21. Nguyen C, Baten A, Morahan G (2014) Comparison of sequence variants in transcriptomic control regions across 17 mouse genomes. Database (Oxford): bau020. doi: 10.1093/database/bau020

  22. Pandey AK, Lu L, Wang X, Homayouni R, Williams RW ([2014]https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24523945)) Functionally enigmatic genes: a case study of the brain ignorome. PLoS One 9(2):e88889

  23. Pandey AK, Williams RW (2014) Genetics of gene expression in CNS. Int Rev Neurobiol 116:195-231

  24. Pietrzykowski A, Spijker S (2014) Impulsivity and comorbid traits: a multi-step approach for finding putative responsible microRNAs in the amygdala. Frontiers in Neuroscience in press

  25. Pirinen E, Cantó C, Jo YS, Morato L, Zhang H, Menzies KJ, Williams EG, Mouchiroud L, Moullan N, Hagberg C, Li W, Timmers S, Imhof R, Verbeek J, Pujol A, van Loon B, Viscomi C, Zeviani M, Schrauwen P, Sauve AA, Schoonjans K, Auwerx J (2014) Pharmacological inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases improves fitness and mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle. Cell Metab 19:1034-1041

  26. Poon A, Goldowitz D (2014) Identification of genetic loci that modulate cell proliferation in the adult rostral migratory stream using the expanded panel of BXD mice. BMC Genomics 15:206

  27. Porcu P, Morrow AL (2014) Divergent neuroactive steroid responses to stress and ethanol in rat and mouse strains: Relevance for human studies. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 231:3257-3272

  28. Ram R, Mehta M, Balmer L, Gatti DM, Morahan G (2014) Rapid identification of major-effect genes using the collaborative cross. Genetics 198:75-86 PMID: 25236450

  29. Ryu D, Jo YS, Lo Sasso G, Stein S, Zhang H, Perino A, Lee JU, Zeviani M, Romand R, Hottiger MO, Schoonjans K, Auwerx J (2014) A SIRT7-dependent acetylation switch of GABPβ1 controls mitochondrial function. Cell Metab in press

  30. Thompson RL, Williams RW, Kotb M, Sawtell NM. (2014) A forward phenotypically driven unbiased genetic analysis of host genes that moderate herpes simplex virus virulence and stromal keratitis in mice. PLoS One 9(3):e92342

  31. Toth LA, Trammell RA, Williams RW (2014) Mapping complex traits using families of recombinant inbred strains: an overview and example of mapping susceptibility to Candida albicans induced illness phenotypes. Pathog Dis 71:234-248

  32. Unger EL, Jones BC, Bianco LE, Allen RP, Earley CJ (2014) Diurnal variations in brain iron concentrations in BXD RI mice. Neuroscience 263:54-59

  33. van de Lagemaat LN, Nijhof B, Bosch DG, Kohansal-Nodehi M, Keerthikumar S, Heimel JA (2014) Age-related decreased inhibitory versus excitatory gene expression in the adult autistic brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience in press

  34. Vied CM, Freudenberg F, Wang Y, Raposo AA, Feng D, Nowakowski RS (2014) A multi-resource data integration approach: identification of candidate genes regulating cell proliferation during neocortical development. Frontiers in Neuroscience 8:257

  35. Wang L, Lu W, Zhang L, Huang Y, Scheib R, Liu X, Myers L, Lu L, Farber CR, Liu G, Wang CY, Deng H, Williams RW, Wang Y, Gu W, Jiao (2014) Trps1 differentially modulates the bone mineral density between male and female mice and its polymorphism associates with BMD differently between women and men. PLoS One 9(1):e84485

  36. Wu Y, Williams EG, Dubuis S, Mottis A, Jovaisaite V, Houten SM, Argmann CA, Faridi P, Wolski W, Kutalik Z, Zamboni N, Auwerx J, Aebersold R (2014) Multilayered genetic and omics dissection of mitochondrial activity in a mouse reference population. Cell 158:1415-1430

  37. Williams EG, Mouchiroud L, Frochaux M, Pandey A, Andreux PA, Deplancke B, Auwerx J (2014) An evolutionarily conserved role for the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in the regulation of movement. PLoS Genet 10:e1004673

  38. Ye R, Carneiro AM, Airey D, Sanders-Bush E, Williams RW, Lu L, Wang J, Zhang B, Blakely RD (2014) Evaluation of heritable determinants of blood and brain serotonin homeostasis using recombinant inbred mice. Genes Brain Behav. 13:247-260

GeneNetwork (2013)

  1. Bhandari P, Hill JS, Farris SP, Costin B, Martin I, Chan CL, Alaimo JT, Bettinger JC, Davies AG, Miles MF, Grotewiel M (2013) Chloride intracellular channels modulate acute ethanol behaviors in Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans and mice. Genes, Brain & Behavior 11:387-97

  2. Cheng Y, Gaughan J, Midic U, Han Z, Liang CG, Patel BG, Latham KE (2013) Systems genetics implicates cytoskeletal genes in oocyte control of cloned embryo quality. Genetics 193:877-896 PDF version

  3. Dogan A, Lasch P, Neuschl C, Millrose MK, Alberts R, Schughart K, Naumann D, Brockmann GA. (2013) ATR-FTIR spectroscopy reveals genomic loci regulating the tissue response in high fat diet fed BXD recombinant inbred mouse strains. BMC Genomics 14:386

  4. DuBose CS, Chesler EJ, Goldowitz D, Hamre KM (2013) Use of the expanded panel of BXD mice narrow QTL regions in ethanol-induced locomotor activation and motor incoordination. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 37:170-83

  5. Farris SP, Miles MF (2013) Fyn-dependent gene networks in acute ethanol sensitivity. PLoS One 8:e82435

  6. Houtkooper RH, Mouchiroud L, Ryu D, Moullan N, Katsyuba E, Knott G, Williams RW, Auwerx J (2013) Mitonuclear protein imbalance as a conserved longevity mechanism. Nature 497:451-457 PDF version

  7. Huang Y, Wang L, Bennett B, Williams RW, Wang YJ, Gu WK, Jiao Y (2013) Potential role of Atp5g3 in epigenetic regulation of alcohol preference or obesity from a mouse genomic perspective. Genet Mol Res 12:3662-3674

  8. Jellen LC, Lu L, Wang X, Unger EL, Earley CJ, Allen RP, Williams RW, Jones BC (2013) Iron deficiency alters expression of dopamine-related genes in the ventral midbrain in mice. Neuroscience 252:13-23

  9. Jiao Y, Chen H, Yan J, Wang L, Huang Y, Liu X, Williams RW, Lu L, Wang Y, Gu W (2013) Genome-wide gene expression profiles in antioxidant pathways and their potential sex differences and connections to vitamin C in mice. Int J Mol Sci 14:10042-62

  10. Jones BC, Miller DB, O'Callaghan JP, Lu L, Unger EL, Alam G, Williams RW (2013) Systems analysis of genetic variation in MPTP neurotoxicity in mice. Neurotoxicology 37C:26-34

  11. Liebe R, Hall RA, Williams RW, Dooley S, Lammert F (2013) Systems genetics of hepatocellular damage in vivo and in vitro: identification of a critical network on chromosome 11 in mouse. Physiological Genomics 45:931-939

  12. Lindblom RP, Aeinehband S, Parso R, Strom M, Al Nimer F, Zhang XM, Domingues CA, Flytzani S, Siez M, Piehl F (2013) Genetic variability in the rat Aplec C-type lectin gene cluster regulates lymphocyte trafficking and motor neuron survival after traumatic nerve root injury. Journal of Neuroinflammation 10:60

  13. Mulligan MK, Dubose C, Yue J, Miles MF, Lu L, Hamre KM (2013) Expression, covariation, and genetic regulation of miRNA biogenesis genes in brain supports their role in addiction, psychiatric disorders, and disease. Frontiers in Genetics 4:126

  14. Swaminathan S, Lu H, Williams RW, Lu L, Jablonski MM (2013) Genetic modulation of the iris transillumination defect: a systems genetics analysis using the expanded family of BXD glaucoma strains. Pigment Cell Melanoma Research 26:487-98

  15. Templeton JP, Wang X, Freeman NE, Ma Z, Lu A, Hejtmancik F, Geisert EE (2013) A crystallin gene network in the mouse retina. Exp Eye Res. 116C:129-140

  16. Templeton JP, Freeman NE, Nickerson JM, Jablonski MM, Rex TS, Williams RW, Geisert EE (2013) Innate immune network in the retina activated by optic nerve crush. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 54:2599-606

  17. Vanderlinden LA, Saba LM, Kechris K, Miles MF, Hoffman PL, Tabakoff B (2013) Whole brain and brain regional coexpression network interactions associated with predisposition to alcohol consumption. PLoS One 8:e68878.

GeneNetwork (2012)

  1. Alberts R, Chen H, Pommerenke C, Smit AB, Spijker S, Williams RW, Geffers R, Bruder D, Schughart K (2011) Expression QTL mapping in regulatory and helper T cells from the BXD family of strains reveals novel cell-specific genes, gene-gene interactions and candidate genes for auto-immune disease. BMC Genomics 12:610 PDF version

  2. Andreux PA, Williams EG, Koutnikova H, Houtkooper RH, Champy MF, Henry H, Schoonjana K, Williams RW, Auwerx J (2012) Systems genetics of metabolism: the use of the BXD murine reference panel for multiscalar integration of traits. Cell 150:1287-1299

  3. Boughter JD Jr, Mulligan MK, St John SJ, Tokita K, Lu L, Heck DH, Williams RW (2012) Genetic control of a central pattern generator: Rhythmic oromotor movement in mice Is controlled by a major locus near Atp1a2. PLoS One 7:e38169. Full Text version

  4. Bubier JA, Chesler EJ (2012) Accelerating discovery for complex neurological and behavioral disorders through systems genetics and integrative genomics in the laboratory mouse. Neurotherapeutics 9:338-348 Full Text version

  5. Bryant CD, Kole LA, Guido MA, Sokoloff G, Palmer AA (2012) Congenic dissection of a major QTL for methamphetamine sensitivity implicates epistasis. Genes, Brain and Behavior 11:623-632 PDF version

  6. Downing C, Balderrama-Durbin C, Kimball A, Biers J, Wright H, Gilliam D, Johnson TE (2012) Quantitative trait locus mapping for ethanol teratogenesis in BXD recombinant inbred mice. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 36:1340-1354

  7. Durrant C, Swertz MA, Alberts R, Arends D, Möller S, Mott R, Prins P, van der Velde KJ, Jansen RC, Schughart K.(2012) Bioinformatics tools and database resources for systems genetics analysis in mice--a short review and an evaluation of future needs. Brief Bioinform 13:135-142 HTML version

  8. Gini B, Hager R (2012) Recombinant inbred systems can advance research in behavioral ecology. Front. Gene. 3:198 Full Text version

  9. Hager R, Lu L, Rosen GD, Williams RW. (2012) Genetic architecture supports mosaic brain evolution and independent brain-body size regulation. Nature Communications 3:1079
    PDF version   Full Text version

  10. Jellen LC, Unger EL, Lu L, Williams RW, Rousseau S, Wang X, Earley CJ, Allen RP, Miles MF, Jones BC (2012) Systems genetic analysis of the effects of iron deficiency in mouse brain. Neurogenetics 13:147-157

  11. McKnite AM, Perez-Munoz ME, Lu L, Williams EG, Brewer S, Andreux PA, Bastiaansen JW, Wang X, Kachman SD, Auwerx J, Williams RW, Benson AK, Peterson DA, Ciobanu DC (2012) Murine gut microbiota is defined by host genetics and modulates variation of metabolic traits. PLoS One 7:e39191 Full Text version

  12. Mulligan MK, Wang X, Adler AL, Mozhui K, Lu L, Williams RW (2012) Complex control of GABA(A) receptor subunit mRNA expression: variation, covariation, and genetic regulation. PLoS One 7:e34586 Full Text version

  13. Newbury AJ, Rosen GD (2012) Genetic, morphometric, and behavioral factors linked to the midsagittal area of the corpus callosum. Frontiers in Genetics 3:91

  14. Parker CC, Cheng R, Sokoloff G, Palmer AA (2012) Genome-wide association for methamphetamine sensitivity in an advanced intercross mouse line. Genes, Brain & Behavior 11:52-61

  15. Reinius B, Johansson MM, Radomska KJ, Morrow EH, Pandey GK, Kanduri C, Sandberg R, Williams RW, Jazin E (2012) Abundance of female-biased and paucity of male-biased somatically expressed genes on the mouse X-chromosome. BMC Genomics 13:607

  16. Rietman ML, Sommeijer JP; Neuro-Bsik Mouse Phenomics Consortium, Levelt CN, Heimel JA (2012) Candidate genes in ocular dominance plasticity. Frontiers in Neuroscience 6:11 PDF version

  17. Talishinsky A, Rosen GD (2012) Systems genetics of the lateral septal nucleus in mouse: Heritability, genetic control, and covariation with behavioral and morphological traits. PLoS One 7: e44236

  18. Williams RW, Mulligan MK (2012) Genetic and molecular network analysis of behavior. Int Rev Neurobiol. 104:135-57

  19. Wolen AR, Phillips CA, Langston MA, Vorster PJ, Bruce NA, York TP, Williams RW, Miles MF (2012) Genetic dissection of acute ethanol responsive gene networks in prefrontal cortex: Functional and mechanistic implications. PLoS One 7:e33575

  20. Yin L, Unger EL, Jellen LC, Earley CJ, Allen RP, Tomaszewicz A, Fleet JC, Jones BC. (2012) Systems genetic analysis of multivariate response to iron deficiency in mice. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 302:R1282-96

  21. Ziebarth JD, Cook MN, Wang X, Williams RW, Lu L, Cui Y (2012) Treatment- and population-dependent activity patterns of behavioral and expression QTLs. PLoS One 7:e31805.

  22. Zumbrun EE, Abdeltawab NF, Bloomfield HA, Chance TB, Nichols DK, Harrison PE, Kotb M, Nalca A (2012) Development of a murine model for aerosolized ebolavirus infection using a panel of recombinant inbred mice. Viruses. 2012 Dec 3;4(12):3468-3493

GeneNetwork (2011)

  1. Alberts R, Lu L, Williams RW, Schughart K. (2012 Genome-wide analysis of the mouse lung transcriptome reveals novel molecular gene interaction networks and cell-specific expression signatures. Respir Res 12:61 Full Text version

  2. Alberts R, Chen H, Pommerenke C, Smit AB, Spijker S, Williams RW, Geffers R, Bruder D, Schughart K (2011) Expression QTL mapping in regulatory and helper T cells from the BXD family of strains reveals novel cell-specific genes, gene-gene interactions and candidate genes for auto-immune disease. BMC Genomics 12:610 Full Text version

  3. Di Curzio DL, Goldowitz D (2011) The genetic basis of adrenal gland weight and structure in BXD recombinant inbred mice. Mammalian Genome 22:209–234 Full Text PDF version

  4. Gatti DM, Lu L, Williams RW, Sun W, Wright FA, Threadgill DW, Rusyn I (2011) MicroRNA expression in the livers of inbred mice. Mutation Research 714:126-133

  5. Gibson JN, Jellen LC, Unger EL, Morahan G, Mehta M, Earley CJ, Allen RP, Lu L, Jones BC (2011) Genetic analysis of iron-deficiency effects on the mouse spleen. Mammalian Genome 22:556-62

  6. Hakvoort TB, Moerland PD, Frijters R, Sokolovic A, Labruyère WT, Vermeulen JL, Ver Loren van Themaat E, Breit TM, Wittink FR, van Kampen AH, Verhoeven AJ, Lamers WH, Sokolovic M (2011) Interorgan coordination of the murine adaptive response to fasting. J Biol Chem 286:16332-43

  7. Freeman NE, Templeton JP, Orr WE, Lu L, Williams RW, Geisert EE (2011) Genetic networks in the mouse retina: Growth Associated Protein 43 and Phosphate Tensin Homology network. Molecular Vision 17:1355-1372 Full Text HTML and PDF   versions

  8. Jablonski MM, Freeman NE, Orr WE, Templeton JP, Lu L, Williams RW, Geisert EE (2011) Genetic pathways regulating glutamate levels in retinal Müller cells. Neurochem Res 36:594-603

  9. Jackson KJ, Chen X, Miles MF, Harenza J, Damaj MI (2011) The neuropeptide galanin and variants in the GalR1 gene are associated with nicotine dependence. Neuropsychopharmacology 36:2339-2348

  10. Jansen R, Timmerman J, Loos M, Spijker S, van Ooyen A, Brussaard AB, Mansvelder HD, The Neuro-Bsik Mouse Phenomics Consortium; Smit AB, de Gunst M, Linkenhaer-Hansen K (2011) Novel candidate genes associated with hippocampal oscillations. PLoS One 6:e26586. HTML  and nbsp; PDF versions

  11. Jiao Y, Jiao F, Yan J, Xiong Q, Shriner D, Hasty K, Stuart J, Gu W (2011) Identifying a major locus that regulates spontaneous arthritis in IL-1ra-deficient mice and analysis of potential candidates. Genet Res (Camb) 18:1-9

  12. Krebs J, Römer D, Overall RW, Fabel K. Babu H, Brandt M, Williams RW, Jessberger S, Kempermann G (2011) Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and plasticity in the infrapyramidal bundle of the mossy fiber projection: II. Genetic covariance and identification of Nos1 as a linking candidate gene. Frontiers in Neuroscience 5:106 PDF version

  13. Krebs J, Römer B, Overall RW, Fabel K, Babu H, Brandt MD, Williams RW, Jessberger S, Kempermann G (2011) Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and plasticity in the infrapyramidal bundle of the mossy fiber projection: II. Genetic covariation and identification of Nos1 as linking candidate gene. Frontiers in Neuroscience 5:106 PDF version

  14. Laughlin RE, Grant TL, Williams RW, Jentsch JD (2011) Genetic dissection of behavioral flexibility: reversal learning in mice. Biological Psychiatry 69:1109-1116

  15. Lu H, Wang X, Pullen M, Guan H, Chen H, Sahu S, Zhang B, Chen H, Williams RW, Geisert EE, Lu L, Jablonski MM (2011) Genetic dissection of the Gpnmb network in the eye. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 52:4132-4142

  16. McLachlan SM, Aliesky HA, Chen CR, Williams RW, Rapoport B (2011) Exceptional Hyperthyroidism and a role for both major histocompatibility class I and class II genes in a murine model of Graves' disease. PLoS One 6:e21378

  17. McLachlan SM, Lu L, Aliesky HA, Williams RW, Rapoport B (2011) Distinct genetic signatures for variability in total and free serum thyroxine levels in four sets of recombinant inbred mice. Endocrinology 152:1172-9

  18. McCall RD (2011) HPNS seizure risk: a role for the Golgi-associated retrograde protein complex? Undersea Hyperb Med. 38:3-9

  19. Moscou MJ, Lauter N, Steffenson B, Wise RP (2011) Quantitative and qualitative stem rust resistance factors in barley are associated with transcriptional suppression of defense regulons. PLoS Genet 7:e1002208

  20. Mozhui K, Wang X, Chen J, Mulligan MK, Li Z, Ingles J, Chen X, Lu L and Williams RW (2011) Genetic regulation of Nrxn1 expression: an integrative cross-species analysis of schizophrenia candidate genes. Transl Psychiatry 1: e25; doi:10.1038/tp.2011.24. PDF version

  21. Porcu P, O'Buckley TK, Song SC, Harenza JL, Lu L, Wang X, Williams RW, Miles MF, Morrow AL (2010) Genetic analysis of the neurosteroid deoxycorticosterone and its relation to alcohol phenotypes: Identification of QTLs and downstream gene regulation. PLoS One 6:e18405 Full Text HTML and PDF version

  22. Sutcliffe JG, Hedlund PB, Thomas EA, Bloom FE, Hilbush BS (2011) Peripheral reduction of β-amyloid is sufficient to reduce brain β-amyloid: implications for Alzheimer's disease. J Neurosci Res. 2011 Jun;89(6):808-14. doi: 10.1002/jnr.22603 PDF Version

  23. Suwanwela J, Farber CR, Haung B, Song B, Pan C, Lyon KM, Lusis AJ (2011) Systems genetics analysis of mouse chondrocyte differentiation. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 26:74-760 PDF Version

  24. Tan T (2011) GeneNetwork: Best of the Web. Genetics Engineering & Biotechnology News 31(3)

  25. Whitney IE, Raven MA, Lu L, Williams RW, Reese BE (2011) A QTL on chromosome 10 modulates cone photoreceptor number in the mouse retina. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 52:3228-36

  26. Whitney IE, Raven MA, Ciobanu DC, Poché RA, Ding Q, Elshatory Y, Gan L, Williams RW, Reese BE (2011) Genetic modulation of horizontal cell number in the mouse retina. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:9697-702

  27. Yadav JS, Pradhan S, Kapoor R, Bangar H, Burzynski BB, Prows DR, Levin L (2011) Multigenic control and sex-bias in host susceptibility to spore-induced pulmonary anthrax in mice. Infect Immun in press.

  28. Yamamoto H, Williams EG, Mouchiroud L, Cantó C, Fan W, Downes M, Héligon C, Barish GD, Desvergne B, Evans RM, Schoonjans K, Auwerx J (2011) NCoR1 is a conserved physiological modulator of muscle mass and oxidative function. Cell 147:827-39

GeneNetwork (2010)

  1. Alberts R, Schughart K (2010) QTLminer: identifying genes regulating quantitative traits. BMC Bioinformatics 11:516.Full Text PDF version

  2. Ciobanu DC, Lu L, Mozhui K, Wang X, Morris JA, Taylor WL, Dietz K, Simon P, Williams RW (2010) Detection, validation, and downstream analysis of allelic variation in gene expression. Genetics 184: 119-128 Full Text PDF

  3. Downing C, Marks MJ, Larson C, Johnson TE (2010) The metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 mediates sensitivity to the sedative properties of ethanol. Pharmacogenet Genomics 20:553-64

  4. Gatti DM, Zhao N, Chesler EJ, Bradford BU, Shabalin AA, Yordanova R, Lu L, Rusyn I (2010) Sex-specific gene expression in the BXD mouse liver. Physiol Genomics 42:456-68 Full Text PDF Version

  5. Grisham W, Schottler NA, Valli-Marill J, Beck L, Beatty J (2010) Teaching bioinformatics and neuroinformatics by using free web-based tools. CBE--Life Sciences Education 9: 98-107 Full Text PDF Version

  6. Hoffman PL, Bennett B, Saba LM, Bhave SV, Carosone-Link PJ, Hornbaker CK, Kechris KJ, Williams RW, Tabakoff B 2010 Using the Phenogen website for 'in silico' analysis of morphine-induced analgesia: identifying candidate genes. Addiction Biology, doi: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2010.00254.x

  7. Li D, Mulligan MK, Wang X, Miles MF, Lu L, Williams RW (2010) A transposon in Comt generates mRNA variants and causes widespread expression and behavioral differences among mice. PLoS One. 2010 Aug 17;5(8):e12181. Full Text HTML and PDF Versions

  8. Lionikas A, Carlborg O, Lu L; Peirce JL, Williams RW, Yu F, Vogler GP, McClearn GE, Blizard DA 2010. Genomic analysis of variation in hindlimb musculature of mice from the C57BL/6J and DBA/2J lineage. Journal of Heredity 2010; doi: 10.1093/jhered/esq023. Full Text PDF Version

  9. Loguercio S, Overall RW, Michaelson JJ, Wiltshire T, Pletcher MT, Miller BH, Walker JR, Kempermann G, Su AI, Beyer A 2010Integrative analysis of low- and high-resolution eQTL. PLoS One 5(11):e13920 Full Text PDF Version

  10. Lynch RM, Naswa S, Rogers Jr GL, Kanla SA, Das S, Chesler EJ, Saxton AM, Langston MA, Voy, BH (2010) Identifying genetic loci and spleen gene coexpression networks underlying immunophenotypes in the BXD recombinant inbred mice. Physiological Genomics 41:244-253 Full Text PDF version

  11. Lynch RM (2010) A systems genetics approach to the characterization of differential low dose radiation responses in the BXD recombinant inbred mice. PhD diss., University of Tennessee http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/727

  12. Malkki HA, Donga LA, de Groot SE, Battaglia FP; NeuroBSIK Mouse Phenomics Consortium, Pennartz CM (2010) Appetitive operant conditioning in mice: heritability and dissociability of training stages. Front Behav Neuroscience 4:171 Full Text PDF version

  13. Mulligan MK, Lu L, Overall RW, Kempermann G, Rogers GL, Langston MA, Williams RW (2010) Genetic analysis of BDNF expression cliques and adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus. Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Conference (BSEC) DOI: 10.1109/BSEC.2010.5510848 Full Text PDF version

  14. Peidis P, Giannakouros T, Burow ME, Williams RW, Scott RE (2010) Systems genetics analyses predict a transcription role for P2P-R: molecular confirmation that P2P-R is a transcriptional co-repressor. BMC Systems Biology 4:14 Full Text PDF version and

  15. Philip VM, Duvvuru S, Gomero B, Ansah TA, Blaha CD, Cook MN, Hamre KM, Laviviere WR, Matthews DB, Mittleman G, Goldowitz D, Chesler EJ (2010) High-throughput behavioral phenotyping in the expanded panel of BXD recombinant inbred strains. Genes, Brain and Behavior 8:129-159 Full Text HTML Version

  16. Reinius B, Shi C, Hengshuo L, Sandhu KS, Radomska KJ, Rosen GD, Lu L, Kullander K, Williams RW, Jazin E. (2010) Female-biased expression of long non-coding RNAs in domains that escape X-inactivation in mouse. BMC Genomics. 2010 Nov 3;11:614 Full Text HTML Version

  17. Rulten SL, Ripley TL, Hunt CL, Stephens DN, Mayne LV (2010) Sp1 and NFkappaB pathways are regulated in brain in response to acute and chronic ethanol. Genes, Brain and Behavior 5:257-73. Full Text HTML Version

  18. Suwanwela J, Farber CR, Haung BL, Song B, Pan C, Lyons KM, Lusis AJ (2010) Systems genetics analysis of mouse chondrocyte differentiation. JBMR, in press Full Text PDF version

  19. Wang X, Chen Y, Wang X, Lu L. (2010) Genetic regulatory network analysis for App based on genetical genomics approach. Exp Aging Res 36:79-93

GeneNetwork (2009)

  1. Badea A, Johnson GA, Williams RW (2009) Genetic dissection of the mouse brain using high-field magnetic resonance microscopy. Neuroimaging 45:1067-79

  2. Boon AC, deBeauchamp J, Hollmann A, Luke J, Kotb M, Rowe S, Finkelstein D, Neale G, Lu L, Williams RW, Webby RJ (2009) Host genetic variation affects resistance to infection with a highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A virus in mice. J Virol 83:10417-26 PMID: 19706712 Full Text PDF Version

  3. Brigman JL, Mathur P, Lu L, Williams RW, Holmes A (2009) Genetic relationship between anxiety- and fear-related behaviors in BXD recombinant inbred mice. Behavioral Pharmacology 20:204-209 Full Text HTML Version

  4. Carneiro AM, Airey DC, Thompson B, Zhu CB, Lu L, Chesler EJ, Erikson KM, Blakely RD (2009) Functional coding variation in recombinant inbred mouse lines reveals multiple serotonin transporter-associated phenotypes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:2047-2052 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  5. Cowley MJ, Cotsapas CJ, Williams RB, Chan EK, Pulvers JN, Liu MY, Luo OJ, Nott DJ, Little PF (2009) Intra- and inter-individual genetic differences in gene expression. Mamm Genome 20:281-295 Full Text HTML Version

  6. Davies MN, Lawn S, Whatley S, Fernandes C, Williams RW, Schalkwyk LC (2009) To what extent is blood a reasonable surrogate for brain gene expression studies: estimation from mouse hippocampus and spleen. Front. Neurogen. 1:2. doi:10.3389/neuro.15.002.2009

  7. Foreman JE, Lionikas A, Lang DH, Gyekis JP, Krishnan M, Sharkey NA, Gerhard GS, Grant MD, Vogler GP, Mack HA, Stout JT, Griffith JW, Lakoski JM, Hofer SM, McClearn GE, Vandenbergh DJ, Blizard DA (2009) Genetic architecture for hole-board behaviors across substantial time intervals in young, middle-aged and old mice. Genes Brain Behav 8:714-27

  8. Gaglani SM, Lu L, Williams RW, Rosen GD (2009) The genetic control of neocortex volume and covariation with patterns of gene expression in mice. BMC Neuroscience 10:44 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  9. Gatti DM, Harrill AH, Wright FA, Threadgill DW, Rusyn I. (2009) Replication and narrowing of gene expression quantitative trait loci using inbred mice. Mamm Genome 20:437-46.

  10. Geisert EE, Lu L, Freeman-Anderson ME, Wang X, Gu W, Jiao Y, Williams RW (2009) Gene expression landscape of the mammalian eye: A global survey and database of mRNAs of 103 strains of mice. Molecular Vision 15:1730-1763 PMID:19727342 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  11. Grisham W (2009) Modular digitial course in undergraduate neuroscience education (MDCUNE): A website offering free digital tools for neuroscience educators. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education 8:A26-A31 Full Text PDF Version
    An excellent example of how resources such as GeneNetwork and the Mouse Brain Library can be used in class room labs.

  12. Jellen LC, Beard JL, Jones BC (2009) Systems genetics analysis of iron regulation. Biochemie in press. 19393285

  13. Koutnikova H, Markku L, Lu L, Combe R, Paananen J, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Häring H, Hansen T, Pedersen,O, Smith U, Hanefel M, Williams RW, Auwerx J (2009) Identification of UBP1 as a critical blood pressure determinant. PLoS Genetics 5:e1000591 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  14. Michaelson JJ, Loguercio S, Beyer A (2009) Detection and interpretation of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). Methods 48:265-276 Full Text HTML Version

  15. Overall RW, Kempermann G, Peirce J, Lu L, Goldowitz D, Gage FH, Goodwin S, Smit AB, Airey DC, Rosen GD, Schalkwyk LC, Sutter TR, Nowakowski RS, Whatley S, Williams RW (2009) Genetics of the hippocampal transcriptome in mice: a systematic survey and online neurogenomic resource. Frontiers in Neuroscience 3:55 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  16. Overton JD, Adams GS, McCall RD, Kinsey ST (2009) High energy phosphate concentrations and AMPK phosphorylation in skeletal muscle from mice with inherited differences in hypoxic exercise tolerance. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 152:478-85

  17. Philip VM, Duvvuru S, Gomero B, Ansah TA, Blaha CD, Cook MN, Hamre KM, Laviviere WR, Matthews DB, Mittleman G, Goldowitz D, Chesler EJ (2009) High-throughput behavioral phenotyping in the expanded panel of BXD recombinant inbred strains. Genes, Brain and Behavior 8:in press PMID: 19958391 Full Text HTML Version

  18. Ruden DM, Chen L, Possidente D, Possidente B, Rasouli P, Wang L, Lu X, Garfinkel MD, Hirsch HV, Page GP (2009) Genetical toxicogenomics in Drosophila identifies master-modulatory loci that are regulated by developmental exposure to lead. Neurotoxicology 30:898-914

  19. Rosen GL, Pung C, Owens C, Caplow J, Kim H, Lu L, Williams RW (2009) Genetic modulation of striatal volume in BXD recombinant inbred mice. Genes, Brain & Behavior 8:296-308

  20. Saccone SF, Bierut LJ, Chesler EJ, Kalivas PW, Lerman C, Saccone NL, Uhl GR, Li CY, Philip VM, Edenberg HJ, Sherry ST, Feolo M, Moyzis RK, Rutter JL (2009) Supplementing high-density SNP microarrays for additional coverage of disease-related genes: addiction as a paradigm. PLoS ONE 4:e5225. Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version. [Supplementary table 1 provides links to many transcripts and genes, some of which were mined from an analysis of GeneNetwork data sets.]

  21. Silva GL, Junta CM, Sakamoto-Hojo ET, Donadi EA, Louzada-Junior P, Passos GA (2009) Genetic susceptibility loci in rheumatoid arthritis establish transcriptional regulatory networks with other genes. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1173:521-37

  22. Tapocik JD, Letwin N, Mayo CL, Frank B, Luu T, Achinike O, House C, Williams R, Elmer GI, Lee NH (2009) Identification of candidate genes and gene networks specifically associated with analgesic tolerance to morphine. J Neurosci 2:5295-307 Full Text HTML

  23. Thomas C, Gioiello A, Noriega L, Strehle A, Oury J, Rizzo G, Macchiarulo A, Yamamoto H, Mataki C, Pruzanski M, Pellicciari R, Auwerx J, Schoonjans K (2009) TGR5-mediated bile acid sensing controls glucose homeostasis. Cell Metab 10:167-77 Full Text PDF

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  26. Whitney IE, Raven MA, Ciobanu DC, Williams RW, Reese BE (2009) Multiple genes on chromosome 7 regulate dopaminergic amacrine cell number in the mouse. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 50:1996-2003. Full Text HTML Version.

  27. Wu S, Lusis AJ, Drake TA (2009) A systems-based framework for understanding complex metabolic and cardiovascular disorders. Journal of Lipid Research, in press Full Text PDF

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GeneNetwork (2008)

  1. Abdeltawab NF, Aziz RK, Kansal R, Rowe SL, Su Y, Gardner L, Brannen C, Nooh MM, Attia RR, Abdelsamed HA, Taylor WL, Williams RW, Kotb M (2008) An unbiased systems genetics approach to mapping genetic loci modulating susceptibility to severe streptococcal sepsis. PLoS Pathogens 4:e1000042 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  2. Bertrand L, Fan Y, Nissanov J, Rioux L (2008) Genetic regulation of the anatomy of the olfactory bulb. Society for Neuroscience 2008

  3. Bhoumik A, Singha N, O'Connell MJ, Ronai ZA (2008) Regulation of TIP60 by ATF2 modulates ATM activation. J Biol Chem 283:17605-14 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  4. Bjork K, Rimondini R, Hansson AC, Terasmaa A, Hyytiä P, Heilig M, Sommer WH (2008) Modulation of voluntary ethanol consumption by beta-arrestin 2. FASEB J 22:2552-60 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  5. Boone EM, Hawks BW, Li W, Garlow SJ (2008) Genetic regulation of hypothalamic cocaine and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) in BxD inbred mice. Brain Res 1194:1-7

  6. Crawford NP, Alsarraj J, Lukes L, Walker RC, Officewala JS, Yang HH, Lee MP, Ozato K, Hunter KW (2008) Bromodomain 4 activation predicts breast cancer survival. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:6380-6385 Full Text HTML Version

  7. Crawford NP, Walker RC, Lukes L, Officewala JS, Williams RW, Hunter KW (2008) The Diasporin Pathway: a tumor progression-related transcriptional network that predicts breast cancer survival. Clin Exp Metastasis 25:357-69 Full Text HTML Version

  8. Danciger M, Ogando D, Yang H, Matthes MT, Yu N, Ahern K, Yasumura D, Williams RW, Lavail MM (2008) Genetic modifiers of retinal degeneration in the rd3 mouse. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 49:2863-2869 Full Text HTML Version

  9. Druka A, Druka I, Centeno AG, Li H, Sun Z, Thomas WT, Bonar N, Steffenson BJ, Ullrich SE, Kleinhofs A, Wise RP, Close TJ, Potokina E, Luo Z, Wagner C, Schweizer GF, Marshall DF, Kearsey MJ, Williams RW, Waugh R (2008) Towards systems genetic analyses in barley: Integration of phenotypic, expression and genotype data into GeneNetwork. BMC Genet 9:73 Full Text HTML Version

  10. Dykstra B, de Haan G (2008) Hematopoietic stem cell aging and self-renewal. Cell Tissue Res 331:91-101

  11. Ferrara CT, Wang P, Neta EC, Stevenes RD, Bain JR, Wenner BR, Ilkayeva OR, Keller MP, Blasiole DA, Kendziorski C, Yandell BS, Newgard CB, Attie AD (2008) Genetic networks of liver metabolism revealed by integration of metabolic and transcriptional profiling. PLoS Genetics 4: e1000034. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000034 Full Text HTML Version

  12. Gerrits A, Dykstra B, Otten M, Bystrykh L, de Haan G (2008) Combining transcriptional profiling and genetic linkage analysis to uncover gene networks operating in hematopoietic stem cells and their progeny. Immunogenetics. 60:411-22.

  13. Grieve IC, Dickens NJ, Pravenec M, Kren V, Hubner N, Cook SA, Aitman TJ, Petretto E, Mangion J (2008) Genome-wide co-expression analysis in multiple tissues. PLoS One. 3:e4033. PMID: 19706712 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  14. Hall R, Hillebrandt S, Hochrath K, Gruenhage F, Weber S, Schwartz S, Yildiz Y , Sauerbruch T, Lammert F (2008) BXD recombinant inbred mouse lines–a genetic reference population for dissection of the complex genetics of liver fibrosis. Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie 46:in press Full Text PDF Version

  15. Han B, Altman NS, Mong JA, Klein LC, Pfaff DW, Vandenbergh DJ (2008) Comparing quantitative trait loci and gene expression data. Advances in Bioinformatics, doi:10.1155/2008/719818. Full Text PDF Version and Full Text HTML Version

  16. Hayat Y, Yang J, Xu HM, Zhu J (2008) Influence of outliers on QTL mapping for complex traits. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 9:931-7

  17. Heimel JA, Hermans JM, Sommeijer JP; Neuro-Bsik Mouse Phenomics consortium, Levelt CN (2008) Genetic control of experience-dependent plasticity in the visual cortex. Genes Brain Behav 7:915-23. Full Text PDF Version

  18. Jan TA, Lu L, Li CX, Williams RW, Waters RS (2008) Genetic analysis of posterior medial barrel subfield (PMBSF) size in somatosensory cortex (SI) in recombinant inbred strains of mice. BMC Neuroscience 9:3 Full Text PDF Version

  19. Johnson KR, Longo-Guessa C, Gagnona LH, Yub H, Zhengb QY (2008) A locus on distal chromosome 11 (ahl8) and its interaction with Cdh23 ahl underlie the early onset, age-related hearing loss of DBA/2J mice. Genomics 92:219-225

  20. Jones LC, Beard JL, Jones BC (2008) Genetic analysis reveals polygenic influences on iron, copper, and zinc in mouse hippocampus with neurobiological implications. Hippocampus 18:398-410 Full Text PDF Version

  21. Jones LC, Earley CJ, Allen RP, Jones BC (2008) Of mice and men, periodic limb movements and iron: how the human genome informs the mouse genome. Genes, Brain and Behavior 7:513-514. Full Text PDF Version

  22. Kang HM, Ye C, Eskin E (2008) Accurate discovery of expression quantitative trait loci under confounding from spurious and genuine regulatory hotspots. Genetics doi:10.1534/genetics.108.094201 Full Text PDF Version. [An important method that can greatly improve the ability to resolve true genetic interactions in expression genetic studies.]

  23. Kadarmideen HN (2008) Genetical systems biology in livestock: Application to gonadotrophin releasing hormone and reproduction. IET Systems Biology 2:423-441 Full Text PDF Version

  24. Kerns RT, Miles MF (2008) Microarray analysis of ethanol-induced changes in gene expression. Alcohol: Methods and Protocols. In: Methods in Molecular Biology 447:395-410 Full Text PDF Version

  25. Kotb M, Fathey N, Aziz R, Rowe S, Williams RW, Lu L (2008) Unbiased forward genetics and systems biology approaches to understanding how gene-environment interactions work to predict susceptibility and outcomes of infections. Novartis Found Symp 293:156-165; discussion pp 165-167, 181-183

  26. Loos M (2008) The PhenoTyper automated home cage environment as a high throughput tool to detect behavioral abnormalities in mutant mice. Proceeding of Measuring Behavior (Maastricht, The Netherlands, Aug 26-29, 2008). Full Text PDF Version

  27. Loudet O, Michael TP, Burger BT, Le Metté C, Mockler TC, Weigel D, Chory J (2008) A zinc knuckle protein that negatively controls morning-specific growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:17193-8 Full Text HTML Version , and Full Text Supplement

  28. Lu L, Wei L, Peirce JL, Wang X, Zhou J, Homayouni R, Williams RW, Airey DC (2008) Using gene expression databases for classical trait QTL candidate gene discovery in the BXD recombinant inbred genetic reference population: mouse forebrain weight. BMC Genomics 9:444 Full Text HTML Version, and Full Text PDF Version

  29. Macedo C, Magalhaes DA, Tonani M, Marques MC, Junta CM, Passos GA (2008) Genes that code for T cell signaling proteins establish transcriptional regulatory networks during thymus ontogeny. Mol Cell Biochem 318:63-71

  30. Morahan G, Peeva V, Munish M, Williams R (2008) Systems genetics can provide new insights in to immune regulation and autoimmunity. Journal of Autoimmunity 31:233-236. Full Text PDF Version

  31. Mozhui RT, Ciobanu DC, Schikorski T, Wang XS, Lu L, Williams RW (2008) Dissection of a QTL hotspot on mouse distal chromosome 1 that modulates neurobehavioral phenotypes and gene expression. PLoS Genetics 4: e1000260. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000260 Full Text HTML Version

  32. New J, Kendall W, Huang J, Chesler E (2008) Dynamic visualization of coexpression in systems genetics data. IEEE Trans Visualization & Computer Graphics 14:1081-1095.

  33. Pravenec M, Petretto E (2008) Insight into the genetics of hypertension, a core component of the metabolic syndrome. Genes and cell metabolism. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 11:393-397 Full Text HTML Version

  34. Pritchard M, Reeves RH, Dierssen M, Patterson D, Gardiner KJ (2008) Down syndrome and the genes of human chromosome 21: current knowledge and future potentials. Cytogenetics and Genome Research 121:67-77

  35. Reiner DJ, Jan TA, Boughter JD Jr, Li CX, Lu L, Williams RW, Waters RS (2008) Genetic analysis of tongue size and taste papillae number and size in recombinant inbred strains of mice. Chemical Senses 33:693-707

  36. Swertz MA, Tesson BM, Scheltema RA, Vera G, Jansen RC (2008) MOLGENIS for genetical genomics. Chapter 5. MGG: a customizable software infrastructure for genetical genomics. Full Text PDF Version

  37. Williams RW, Lu L (2008) Integrative genetic analysis of alcohol dependence using the GeneNetwork web resources. In Pathways to Alcohol Dependence: Alcohol Research & Health 31:275-277 Full Text PDF Version

  38. Woo JH, Zheng T, Kim JH (2008) DACE: Differential Allelic Co-Expression test for estimating regulatory associations of SNP and biological pathway. International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine 1:407-418

  39. Yang RJ, Mozhui K, Karlsson RM, Cameron HA, Williams RW, Holmes A (2008) Variation in mouse basolateral amygdala volume is associated with differences in stress reactivity and fear learning. Neuropsychopharmacology. 33:2595-604 Full Text HTML Version, Full Text PDF Version

  40. Zhang Y, Maksakova IA, Gagnier L , van de Lagemaat LN, Mager DL (2008) Genome-wide assessments reveal extremely high levels of polymorphism of two active families of mouse endogenous retroviral elements. PLoS Genet 4(2): e1000007. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000007 Full Text HTML Version

GeneNetwork (2007)

  1. Aziz RK, Kansal R, Abdeltawab NF, Rowe SL, Su Y, Carrigan D, Nooh MM, Attia RR, Brannen C, Gardner LA, Lu L, Williams RW, Kotb M (2007) Susceptibility to severe Streptococcal sepsis: use of a large set of isogenic mouse lines to study genetic and environmental factors. Genes and Immunity 8:404-415

  2. Bao L, Peirce JL, Zhou M, Li H, Goldowitz D, Williams RW, Lu L, Cui Y (2007) An integrative genomics strategy for systematic characterization of genetic loci modulating phenotypes. Hum Mol Genet 16:1381-1390

  3. Bao L, Zhou M, Wu L, Lu L, Goldowitz D, Williams RW, Cui Y (2007) PolymiRTS Database: linking polymorphisms in microRNA target sites with complex traits. Nucleic Acids Res. 35(Database issue):D51-54 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version

  4. Benhamou JP, Rizzetto M, Reichen J, Rodés J (2007) Textbook of hepatology: from basic science to clinical practice. Blackwell Publishing, p. 379), ISBN 1405127414

  5. Bennett B, Downing C, Carosone-Link P, Ponicsan H, Ruf C, Johnson TE (2007) Quantitative trait locus mapping for acute functional tolerance to ethanol in the L x S recombinant inbred panel. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 31:200-208. [Phenotype data described in this paper are accessible in GeneNetwork in the LXS Phenotype database; ID numbers 10126, 10127, 10132, 10134, 10138, and 10139 (select Species=MOUSE, Group=LXS, Type=PHENOTYPES and search the ALL field with the term "functional" or just enter the ID numbers above.]

  6. Cervino ACL, Darvasi A, Fallah Mi, Mader CC, Tsinoremas NF (2007) An integrated in silico gene mapping strategy in inbred mice. Genetics 175:321-333 Full Text PDF Version

  7. Chesler EJ (2007) Bioinformatics of behavior. In Neurobehavioral Genetics, ed Jones BC, Mormede P CRC Press ISBN 084931903X InterScience 95-114), ISBN 1405127414

  8. Chesler EJ (2007) Combining quantitative trait and gene-expression data. In Bioinformatics of Geneticists, ed Barnes MR, Wiley InterScience

  9. Coppin H, Darnaud V, Kautz L, Meynard D, Aubry M, Mosser J, Martinez M, Roth MP (2007) Gene expression profiling of Hfe-/- liver and duodenum in mouse strains with differing susceptibilities to iron loading: identification of transcriptional regulatory targets of Hfe and potential hemochromatosis modifiers. Genome Biology 8:R221 Full Text PDF Version Full Text HTML Version

  10. Crawford NP, Qian X, Ziogas A, Papageorge AG, Boersma BJ, Walker RC, Lukes L, Rowe WL, Zhang J, Ambs S, Lowy DR, Anton-Culver H, Hunter KW (2007) Rrp1b, a new candidate susceptibility gene for breast cancer progression and metastasis. PLoS Genetics 3: e214
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  11. Dong H, Martin MV, Colvin J, Ali Z, Wang L, Lu L, Williams RW, Rosen GD, Csernansky JG, Cheverud JM (2007) Quantitative trait loci linked to thalamus and cortex gray matter volumes in BXD recombinant inbred mice. Heredity 99:62-69

  12. Fox JG, Barthold SW, Davisson MT, Newcomer CE (2007) The mouse in biomedical research. (2nd ed). Academic Press, p. 530.

  13. French L, Pavlidis P (2007) Informatics in neuroscience. Briefings in Bioinformatics 8:446-456

  14. Gatti D, Maki A, Chesler EJ, Kirova R, Kosyk O, Lu L, Manly KF, Williams RW, Perkins A, Langston MA, Threadgill DW, Rusyn I (2007) Genome-level analysis of genetic regulation of liver gene expression networks. Hepatology 46:548-557 Full Text PDF Version

  15. Grice DE, Reenila I, Mannisto PT, Brooks Ai, Smith GG, Golden GT, Buxbaum JD, Berrettini WH (2007) Transcriptional profiling of C57 and DBA strains of mice in the absence and presence of morphine. BMC Genomics 8:76 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version

  16. Hancock JM, Mallon AM (2007) Phenobabelomics--mouse phenotype data resources. Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic 6:292-301

  17. Hawes JJ, Tuskan RG, Reilly KM (2007) Nf1 expression is dependent on strain background: implications for tumor suppressor haploinsufficiency studies. Neurogenetics 8: 121-130. [Nf1 expression in whole brain (INIA data set) and in striatum (Rosen data set) was used to catalyze a detailed study of the degree of NPcis (Nf1 + Trp53) haploinsufficiency. Email: kreilly@ncifcrf.gov]

  18. Hofstetter JR, Svihla-Jones DA, Mayeda AR (2007) A QTL on mouse chromosome 12 for the genetic variance in free-running circadian period between inbred strains of mice. J Circadian Rhythms 5:7 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version

  19. Hsu HC, Lu L, Yi N, Van Zant G, Williams RW, Mountz JD (2007) Quantitative trait locus mapping in aging systems. In: Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol 371). Biological Aging: Methods and Protocols, ed Tollefsbol TO, Humana Press, Inc., Netlibrary, Springer
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  20. Jawad M, Giotopoulos G, Fitch S, Cole C, Plumb M, Talbot CJ (2007) Mouse bone marrow and peripheral blood erythroid cell counts are regulated by different autosomal genetic loci. Blood Cells Mol Disease 38:69-77

  21. Jessberger S, Gage FH (2007) ZOOMING IN: a new high-resolution gene expression atlas of the brain. Mol Syst Biol. 3:75

  22. Jones BC, Beard JL, Gibson JN, Unger EL, Allen RP, McCarthy KA, Earley CJ (2007) Systems genetic analysis of peripheral iron parameters in the mouse. American Journal of Physiology Regul Integr Comp Physiol 293: R116-124 Full Text HTML Version, and see full text of Jones et al., 1999.

  23. Jones BC and Mormede JP (2007) Neurobehavioral genetics: methods and applications. (2007) CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida, p. 102, ISBN 084931903X

  24. Kadarmideen HN, Reverter A (2007) Combined genetic, genomic and transcriptomic methods in the analysis of animal traits. CABI Review: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources 2: No. 042 (16 pp) Full Text PDF Version

  25. Korostynski M, Piechota M, Kaminska D, Solecki W. Przewlocki R (2007) Morphine effects on striatal transcriptome in mice. Genome Biology 8:R128

  26. Lad HV, Liu L, Payá-Cano JL, Fernandes C, Schalkwyk LC (2007) Quantitative traits for the tail suspension test: automation, optimization, and BXD RI mapping. Mamm Genome. 2007 Jul;18(6-7):482-91 Full Text PubMed Central version

  27. Liang Y, Jansen M, Aronow B, Geiger H, Van Zant G (2007) The quantitative trait gene latexin influences the size of the hematopoietic stem cell population in mice. Nature Genetics 39:141-142 (doi: 10.1038/ng1938). [Using the BXD mouse strains, Liang, Van Zant and colleagues, demonstrate that sequence variants in Lxn modulate cell cycling kinetics of bone marrow stem cells. High expression of Lxn mRNA and protein is associated with the C57BL/6J allele and with lower proliferative activity. The authors made good use of the BXD Hematopoietic Stem Cell data set and Lxn Affymetrix probe set 96065_at. Figures 1 and 5 were generated using GeneNetwork.]

  28. Llamas B, Bélanger S, Picard S, Deschepper CF (2007) Cardiac mass and cardiomyocyte size are governed by different genetic loci on either autosomes or chromosome Y in recombinant inbred mice. Physiol Genomics 31:176-82

  29. Meng PH, Macquet A, Loudet O, Marion-Poll A, North HM (2007) Analysis of natural allelic variation controlling Arabidopsis thaliana seed germinability in response to cold and dark: identification of three major quantitative trait loci. Molecular Plant, doi:10.1093/mp/ssm014

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  31. Miyairi I, Tatireddigari VR, Mahdi OS, Rose LA, Belland RJ, Lu L, Williams RW, Byrne GI (2007) The p47 GTPases Iigp2 and Irgb10 regulate innate immunity and inflammation to murine Chlamydia psittaci. J Immunol 179:1814-1824

  32. Mozhui K, Hamre KM, Holmes A, Lu L, Williams RW (2007) Genetic and structural analysis of the basolateral amygdala complex in BXD recombinant inbred mice. Behav Genet. 37:223-243 Full Text MS Word Version (authors' copy)

  33. Peirce JL, Broman KW, Lu L, Williams RW (2007) A simple method for combining genetic mapping data from multiple crosses and experimental designs. PLoS ONE 2:e1036 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version

  34. Pérez-Enciso M, Quevedo JR, Bahamonde A (2007) Genetical genomics: use all data. BMC Genomics 8:69. Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version

  35. Rosen GD, Bai J, Wang Y, Fiondella CG, Threlkeld SW, LoTurco JJ, Galaburda AM (2007) Disruption of neuronal migration by RNAi of Dyx1c1 results in neocortical and hippocampal malformations. Cereb Cortex 17:2562-72. Full Text PDF Version

  36. Rosen GD, Chesler EJ, Manly KF, Williams RW (2007) An informatics approach to systems neurogenetics. Methods Mol Biol 401:287-303

  37. Sunkin SM, Hohmann JG (2007) Insights from spatially mapped gene expression in the mouse brain. Human Molecular Genetics 16: R209-219 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version

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  40. Vazquez-Chona F, Lu L, Williams RW, Geisert EE (2007) Genetic influences on retinal gene expression and wound healing. Gene Regulation and Systems Biology 1:327-348 Full Text PDF Version

  41. von Rohr P, Friberg M, Kadarmideen HN (2007) Prediction of transcription factor binding sites using results from genetical genomics investigations. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 5:773-793 Full Text PDF Version

  42. Wan X, Pavlidis P (2007) Sharing and reusing gene expression profiling data in neuroscience. Neuroinformatics 5:161-75. HTML example of using GEMMA and GeneNetwork

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GeneNetwork (2006)

  1. Aliesky HA, Pichurin PN, Chen CR, Williams RW, Rapoport B, McLachlan SM (2006) Probing the genetic basis for thyrotropin receptor antibodies and hyperthyroidism in immunized CXB recombinant inbred mice. Endocrinology 147:2789-800. Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version.

  2. Bao L, Wei L, Peirce JL, Homayouni R, Li H, Zhou M, Chen H, Lu L, Williams RW, Pfeffer LM, Goldowitz D, Cui Y (2006) Combining gene expression QTL mapping and phenotypic spectrum analysis to uncover gene regulatory relationships. Mammalian Genome 17:575-583 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version.

  3. Beatty J, Laughlin RE (2006) Genomic regulation of natural variation in cortical and noncortical brain volume. BMC Neuroscience 7:16 [This mapping study made use of both the Mouse Brain Libray online collection of sections of BXD brains and GeneNetwork/WebQTL.]

  4. Bennett B, Carosone-Link P, Zahniser NR, Johnson TE (2006) Confirmation and fine mapping of ethanol sensitivity quantitative trait loci, and candidate gene testing in the LXS recombinant inbred mice. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 319:299-307 (doi: 10.1038/ng1938) Full Text PDF Version

  5. Bennett B, Downing C, Parker C, Johnson TE (2006) Mouse genetic models in alcohol research. Trends Genet 22:367-74

  6. Cervino ACL, Darvasi A, Fallahi M, Mader CC, Tsinoremas NF (2006) An integrated in silico gene mapping strategy in inbred mice (2006) Genetics 175:321-333

  7. Chesler EJ, Langston MA (2006) Combinatorial genetic regulatory network analysis tools for high throughput transcriptomic data. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Heidelberg, Vol. 4023: 150-165.

  8. De Haro L, Panda S(2006) Systems biology of circadian rhythms: an outlook. Journal of Biological Rhythms 21:507 Full Text PDF Version

  9. Jones LC, McCarthy KA, Beard JL, Keen CL, Jones BC (2006) Quantitative genetic analysis of brain copper and zinc in BXD recombinant inbred mice. Nutritional Neuroscience 9:81-92 [This paper includes a large data set consisting of 16 traits related to copper and zinc metabolism in the CNS that is part of the Mouse BXD Phenotype database in GeneNetwork. The entire data set can be found by entering the search term "Jones LC" in the ALL search field.]

  10. Kadarmideen HN, Janss LLG (2006) Population and systems genetics analyses of cortisol in pigs divergently selected for stress. Physiological Genomics 29:57-65 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version. [One of several great papers in a freely available (open) Special Issue of Mammalian Genome devoted to QTLs, Expression and Complex Trait Analysis. This study makes great use of the BXD INIA Brain mRNA M430 PDNN data set and GeneNetwork/WebQTL.]

  11. Kadarmideen HN, von Rohr, P, Janss LLG (2006) From genetical genomics to systems genetics: potential applications in quantitative genomics and animal breeding. Mammalian Genome 17:548-564 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version .[One of several great papers in a freely available (open) Special Issue of Mammalian Genome devoted to QTLs, Expression and Complex Trait Analysis. This study makes great use of the BXD INIA Brain mRNA M430 PDNN data set and GeneNetwork/WebQTL.]

  12. Kamminga LM, Bystrykh LV, de Boer A, Houwer S, Douma J, Weersing E, Dontje B, de Haan G (2006) The Polycomb group gene Ezh2 prevents hematopoietic stem cell exhaustion. Blood 107:2170-2179 Full Text PDF Version

  13. Keeley MB, Wood MA, Isiegas C, Stein J, Hellman K, Hannenhalli S, Abel T (2006) Differential transcriptional response to nonassociative and associative components of classical fear conditioning in the amygdala and hippocampus. Learning and Memory 13:135-142103:780-785.

  14. Kempermann G, Chesler EJ, Lu L, Williams RW, Gage FH (2006) Natural variation and genetic covariance in adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 103:780-785.

  15. Korostynski M, Kaminska-Chowaniec D, Piechota M, Przewlocki R (2006) Gene expression profiling in the striatum of inbred mouse strains with distinct opioid-related phenotypes. BMC Genomics 7: 146 (doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-146). Full Text HTML Version. [A combination of data sources including the Rosen HBP Striatum data set used to study opioid-related traits. Their Fig 3C and Fig 5 take good advantage of GeneNetwork and WebQTL output graphs.]

  16. Lan H, Chen M, Flowers JB, Yandell BS, Stapleton DS, Mata CM, Mui ET, Flowers MT, Schueler KL, Manly KF, Williams RW, Kendziorski C, Attie A (2006) Combined expression trait correlations and expression quantitative trait locus mapping. PLoS Genetics 2:e6 [Please cite this work if you make use of the B6BTBRF2 liver transcriptome data.]

  17. Liu Y, Li J, Sam L, Goh CS, Gerstein M, Lussier YA (2006) An integrative genomic approach to uncover molecular mechanisms of prokaryotic traits. PLoS Computional Biology 2:e159

  18. Loney KD, Uddin RK, Singh SM (2006) Analysis of metallothionein brain gene expression in relation to ethanol preference in mice using cosegregation and gene knockouts. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:15-25

  19. Martin MV, Dong H, Vallera D, Lee D, Lu L, Williams RW, Rosen GD, Cheverud JM, Csernansky JG (2006) Independent quantitative trait loci influence ventral and dorsal hippocampal volume in recombinant inbred strains of mice. Gene, Brain and Behavior 5:614-623.

  20. van Os R, Ausema A, Noach EJ, van Pelt K, Dontje BJ, Vellenga E, de Haan G (2006) Identification of quantitative trait loci regulating haematopoietic parameters in B6AKRF2 mice. British Journal of Haematolology 132:80-90.

  21. Peirce JL, Li H, Wang J, Manly KF, Hitzemann RJ, Belknap JK, Rosen GD, Goodwin S, Sutter TR, Williams RW, Lu L 2006) How replicable are mRNA expression QTL? Mammalian Genome 17:643-656. Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version. [An important paper in which four matched expression data sets (whole brain and striatum) generated using both recombinant inbred and F2 intercrosses were directly compared.]

  22. Ponomarev I, Maiya R, Harnett MT, Schafer GL, Ryabinin AE, Blednov YA, Morikawa H, Boehm SL 2nd, Homanics GE, Berman AE, Lodowski KH, Bergeson SE, Harris RA 2006 Transcriptional signatures of cellular plasticity in mice lacking the alpha1 subunit of GABAA receptors. J Neurosci 26:5673-83 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version

  23. Radcliffe RA, Lee MJ, Williams RW (2006) Prediction of cis-QTLs in a pair of inbred mouse strains with the use of expression and haplotype data from public databases. Mammalian Genome 17:629-642 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version

  24. Rulten SL, Ripley TL, Hunt CL, Stephens DN, Mayne LV (2006) Sp1 and NFkappaB pathways are regulated in brain in response to acute and chronic ethanol. Genes Brain Behav 5:257-273 [This study exploited the original GeneNetwork Affymetrix U74Av2 brain data set to validate a set of transcripts modulated by ethanol treatment.]

  25. Saba L, Bhave SV, Grahame N, Bice P, Lapadat R, Belknap J, Hoffman PL, Tabakoff B (2006) Candidate genes and their regulatory elements: alcohol preference and tolerance. Mammalian Genome 17:669-688 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version [A lovely paper describing results of a whole brain BXD study involving males from 30 strains (four individual arrays (not pooled) per strain). The data described in this study have been made accessible from GeneNetwork.]

  26. Shifman S, Bell JT, Copley BR, Taylor M, Williams RW, Mott R, Flint J (2006) A high resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genetic map of the mouse genome. PLoS Biology 4:2227-2237 Full Text PDF Version [A comprehensive analysis of recombination rates using several populations of mice, including most major genetic reference populations.]

  27. van Os R, Ausema A, Noach EJ, van Pelt K, Dontje BJ, Vellenga E, de Haan G (2006) Identification of quantitative trait loci regulating haematopoietic parameters in B6AKRF2 mice. British Journal of Haematology 132:80-90

  28. Veenstra-VanderWeele J, Qaadir A, Palmer AA, Cook EH Jr, de Wit H. (2006) Association between the casein kinase 1 epsilon gene region and subjective response to D-amphetamine. Neuropsychopharmacology 31:1056-1063 Full Text HTML Version [This mapping study made use of GeneNetwork/WebQTL to show that "the region that contains Csnk1e was also found to contain a QTL for MA sensitivity, and complementary data from WebQTL (Chesler et al, 2005) showed that this same region of mouse chromosome 15 influenced Csnk1e transcript abundance, indicating the presence of a cis-acting eQTL."]

  29. Voy BH, Scharff JA, Perkins AD, Saxton AM, Borate B, Chesler EJ, Branstetter LK, Langston MA (2006) Extracting gene networks for low-dose radiation using graph theoretical algorithms. PLoS Computational Biology 2:e89. [A paper that introduces the use of cliques in analyzing microarray data sets. One of the GeneNetwork databases (BXD Hematopoietic Stem Cells) was used to follow up on a strong candidate gene, Tubby-like protein 4 Tulp4) that may have a role in immune function.

  30. Williams RH, Cotsapas CJ, Cowley MJ, Chan E, Nott DJ, Little PF (2006) Normalization procedures and detection of linkage signal in genetical-genomics experiments. Nature Genetics 38:855-856. [A set of letters to the editor by Rohan Williams and colleagues, Chesler and colleagues, and Petretto and colleagues. All three letters highlight some of the technical challenges of analyzing expression data in a genetic context and point to the need for great care and attention to normalization methods. Well worth reviewing. Normalization is still very much an art, and it is quite likely that no one normalization procedure will be optimal for all different research questions. The old adage: "different horses for different courses" is likley to apply.]

  31. Williams RW (2006) Expression genetics and the phenotype revolution. Mammalian Genome 17:496-502 Full Text PDF Version,Full Text HTML Version. [My take on where systems genetics may take us in the next few years.]

GeneNetwork (2005)

  1. Alberts R, Terpstra P, Bystrykh LV, de Haan G, Jansen RC (2005) A statistical multiprobe model for analyzing cis and trans genes in genetical genomics experiments with short-oligonucleotide arrays Genetics 171:1437-1439

  2. Alberts R, Fu J, Swertz MA, Lubbers LA, Albers CJ, Jansen RC (2005) Combining microarrays and genetic analysis. Brief Bioinform. 6:135-145 Full text PDF version

  3. Bystrykh L, Weersing E, Dontje B, Sutton S, Pletcher MT, Wiltshire T, Su AI, Vellenga E, Wang J, Manly KF, Lu L, Chesler EJ, Alberts R, Jansen RC, Williams RW, Cooke M, de Haan G (2005 Uncovering regulatory pathways affecting hematopoietic stem cell function using “genetical genomics." Nature Genetics, 37:225-232

  4. Chesler EJ, Lu L, Shou S, Qu Y, Gu J, Wang J, Hsu HC, Mountz JD, Baldwin N, Langston MA, Threadgill DW, Manly KF, Williams RW (2005) Genetic dissection of gene expression reveals polygenic and pleiotropic networks modulating brain structure and function. Nature Genetics 37: 233-242

  5. Flaherty L, Herron B, Symula D (2005) Genome Research 15:1741-1745 Full text PDF version

  6. Garlow SJ, Boone E, Li W, Owens MJ, Nemeroff CB (2005) Genetic analysis of hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor system. Endocrinology 146: 2362-2368

  7. Gammie SC, Hasen NS, Awad TA, Auger AP, Jessen HM, Panksepp JB, Bronikowski AM (2005) Gene array profiling of large hypothalamic CNS regions in lactating and randomly cycling virgin mice. Molecular Brain Research 139: 201-211

  8. Kerns RT, Ravindranathan A, Hassan S, Cage MP, York T, Williams RW, Miles MF (2005) Ethanol-responsive brain region expression networks: implications for behavioral responses to acute ethanol in DBA/2J versus C57BL/6J mice. Journal of Neuroscience 25: 2255-2266 [www.brainchip.vcu.edu/kerns_apptable1.pdf for a complete table of modulated transcripts.]

  9. Li HQ, Lu L, Manly KF, Wang J, Zhou M, Williams RW, Cui Y (2005) Inferring gene transcriptional modulatory relations: a genetical genomics approach. Human Molecular Genetics 14: 1119-1125

  10. Li J, Burmeister M (2005) Genetical genomics: combining genetics with gene expression analysis. Human Molecular Genetics 14:163-169. [Full text PDF version]

  11. Lozier JN, Tayebi N, Zhang P (2005) Mapping of genes that control the antibody response to human factor IX in mice. Blood 105: 1029-1035

  12. MacLaren EJ, Sikela JM (2005) Cerebellar gene expression profiling and eQTL analysis in inbred mouse strains selected for ethanol sensitivity. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 29: 1568-1579. HTML and PDF reprints.

  13. Matthews B, Bhave SV, Belknap JK, Brittingham C, Chesler EJ, Hitzemann RJ, Hoffman PL, Lu L, McWeeney S, Miles MR, Tabakoff B, Williams RW (2005) Complex genetics of interactions of alcohol and CNS function and behavior. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 29:1706-1719

  14. Mountz JD, Yang P, Wu Q, Zhou J, Tousson A, Fitzgerald A, Allen J, Wang X, Cartner S, Grizzle WE, Yi N, Lu L, Williams RW, Hsu HC (2005) Genetic segregation of spontaneous erosive arthritis and generalized autoimmune disease in BXD2 recombinant inbred strain of mice. Scadinavian Journal of Immunology 61:1-11 Full Text PDF Version

  15. Li CX, Wei X, Lu L, Peirce JL, Wiliams RW, Waters RS (2005) Genetic analysis of barrel field size in the first somatosensory area (S1) in inbred and recombinant inbred strains of mice. Somatosensory and Motor Research 22:141-150

  16. Palmer AA, Verbitsky M, Suresh R, Kamen HM, Reed CI, Li N, Burkhart-Kasch S, McKinnon CS, Belknap JK, Gilliam TC, Phillips TJ (2005) Gene expression differences in mice divergently selected for methamphetamine sensitivity. Mammalian Genome 16:291-305

  17. Pravenec M, Kren V (2005) Genetic analysis of complex cardiovascular traits in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Exp Physiol 90:273-276 Full Text PDF Version, Full Text HTML Version

  18. Scott RE, White-Grindley E, Ruley HE, Chesler EJ, Williams RW (2005) P2P-R expression is genetically coregulated with components of the translation machinery and with PUM2, a translational repressor that associates with the P2P-R mRNA. Journal of Cellular Physiology 204:99-105 Full text HTML version

  19. Vazquez-Chona FR, Khan AN, Chan CK, Moore AN, Dash PK, Rosario Hernandez R, Lu L, Chesler EJ, Manly KF, Williams RW, Geisert Jr EE (2005) Genetic networks controlling retinal injury. Molecular Vision 11:958-970

  20. Yang H, Crawford N, Lukes L, Finney R, Lancaster M, Hunter KW (2005) Metastasis predictive signature profiles pre-exist in normal tissues. Clin Exp Metastasis 22:593-603 Full Text HTML Version

GeneNetwork (2004)

  1. Baldwin NE, Chesler EJ, Kirov S, Langston MA, Snoddy JR, Williams RW, Zhang B (2004) Computational, integrative and comparative methods for the elucidation of genetic co-expression networks. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2:172-180 HTML and PDF reprints.

  2. Carlborg O, De Koning DJ, Chesler EJ, Manly KM, Williams RW, Haley CS (2004) Methological aspects of the genetic dissection of gene expression. Bioinformatics 10:1093

  3. Chesler EJ, Williams RW (2004) Brain gene expression: genomics and genetics. International Review of Neurobiology 60:59-95

  4. Fernandes K, Paya-Cano JL, Sluyter F, D'Souza U, Plomin R, Schalkwyk LC (2004) Hippocampal gene expression profiling across eight mouse inbred strains: towards understanding the molecular basis for behaviour. European Journal of Neuroscience 19:2576-2582 Full Text HTML Version

  5. Henckaerts E, Langer JC, Hans-Willem Snoeck HW (2004) Quantitative genetic variation in the hematopoietic stem cell and progenitor cell compartment and in lifespan are closely linked at multiple loci in BXD recombinant inbred mice. Blood 104:374-379 Full Text HTML Version

  6. Hitzemann R, Reed C, Malmanger B, Lawler M, Hitzemann B, Cunningham B, McWeeney S, Belknap J, Harrington C, Buck K, Phillips T, Crabbe J (2004) On the integration of alcohol-related quantitative trait loci and gene expression analyses. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 28:1437-1448 [Please cite this paper is you plan to use the B6D2F2 OHSU data set.]

  7. Maiya RP (2004) Regulation of dopamine transporter: a role for ethanol and protein interactions. Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin

  8. Orth AP, Batalow S, Perrone M, Chanda SK (2004) The promise of genomics to identify novel therapeutic targets. Expert Opion of Therapeutic Targets 8:587-596

  9. Pomp D, Allan MF, Wesolowski SR (2004) Quantitative genomics: Exploring the genetic architecture of complex trait predisposition. J Anim Sci 82:E300-E312 Full Text HTML Version

  10. Ponomarev I, Schafer GL, Blednov YA, Williams RW, Iver VR, Harris A (2004) Convergent analysis of cDNA and short oligomer microarrays, mouse null mutant, and bioinformatics resources to study complex traits. Genes, Brain and Behavior 3:360-368

  11. Simon P, Schott K, Williams RW, Schaeffel F (2004) Post-translational regulation of the immediate early gene EGR1 by light in the mouse retina. European Journal of Neuroscience 20:3371-3377

  12. Zareparsi S, Hero A, Zack DJ, Williams RW, Swaroop A (2004) Seeing the unseen: microarray-based gene expression profiling in vision. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 45:2457-2462 Full text HTML version

GeneNetwork (2003)

  1. Bolivar V, Flaherty L (2003) A region on chromosome 15 controls intersession habituation in mice. Journal of Neuroscience 23: 9435-9438 Full Text HTML and PDF Versions

  2. Jones BC, Reed CL, Hitzemann R, Wiesinger JA, McCarthy KA, Buwen JP, Beard JL (2003) Quantitative genetic analysis of ventral midbrain and liver iron in BXD recombinant inbred mice. Nutr Neuroscience 6:369-77 Full Text PDF Version

  3. Hitzemann R, Hitzemann B, Rivera S, Gatley J, Thanos P, Shou S, Lu L, Williams RW (2003) Dopamine D2 receptor binding, Drd2 expression and the number of dopamine neurons in the BXD recombinant inbred series: genetic relationships to alcohol and other drug associated phenotypes. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 27:1-11

  4. Hitzemann R, Malmanger B, Reed C, Lawler M, Hitzemann B, Coulombe S, Buck K, Rademacher B, Walter N, Polyakov Y, Sikela J, Williams RW, Flint J, Talbot C (2003) A strategy for integration of QTL, gene expression, and sequence analyses. Mammalian Genome 14:733-747

  5. Lionikas A, Blizard DA, Vandenbergh DJ, Glover MG, Stout JT, Vogler GP, McClearn GE, Larsson L (2003) Genetic architecture of fast- and slow-twitch skeletal muscle weight in 200-day-old mice of the C57BL/6J and DBA/2J lineage. Physiological Genomics 16:141-152

  6. Peirce J, Chesler EJ, Williams RW, Lu L (2003) Genetic architecture of the mouse hippocampus: identification of gene loci with regional effects. Genes, Brain and Behavior 2:238–252 Full Text PDF Version

  7. Rosen GD, La Porte NT, Diechtiareff B, Pung, CJ, Nissanov J, Gustafson C, Bertrand L, Gefen S, Fan Y, Tretiak OJ, Manly KF, Parks MR, Williams AG, Connolly MT, Capra JA, Williams RW (2003) Informatics center for mouse genomics: the dissection of complex traits of the nervous system. Neuroinformatics 1:327–342 Full Text PDF Version

Background references on inbred strains and other key resources

Williams RW, Gu J, Qi S, Lu L (2001) The genetic structure of recombinant inbred mice: high-resolution consensus maps for complex trait analysis. Genome Biology 2:46.1–46.18 Full Text HTML and PDF Version . [General background on recombinant inbred strains.]

Williams RW, Bennett B, Lu L, Gu J, DeFries JC, Carosone-Link PJ, Rikke BA, Belknap JK, Johnson TE (2004) Genetic structure of the LXS panel of recombinant inbred mouse strains: a powerful resource for complex trait analysis. Mammalian Genome 15:637-647 [Background on origins and the genetic structure large panel of LXS strains. Please cite this paper is you have used LXS data sets.]

Grubb SC, Churchill GA, Bogue MA (2004) A collaborative database of inbred mouse strain characteristics. Bioinformatics 20:2857-2859 [One of two key papers on the Mouse Phenome Project and database at The Jackson Laboratory. The mouse diversity panel (MDP) is a superset of strains that are part of the Phenome Project. Full Text PDF Version]

Bogue MA, Grubb SC (2004) The mouse phenome project. Genetica 122:71-74 [One of two key papers on the Mouse Phenome Project and database at The Jackson Laboratory. The mouse diversity panel (MDP) is a superset of strains that are part of the Phenome Project. Please contact Dr. Molly Bogue for information on the Phenome Project: mollyb@jax.org]

Frazer KA, Eskin E, Kang HM, Bogue MA, Hinds DA, Beilharz EJ, Gupta RV, Montgomery J, Morenzoni MM, Nilsen GB, Pethiyagoda CL, Stuve LL, Johnson FM, Daly MJ, Wade CM, Cox DR (2007) A sequence-based variation map of 8.27 million SNPs in inbred mouse strains. Nature 448, 1050-3

Loudet O, Chaillou S, Camilleri C, Bouchez D, Daniel-Vedele F (2002) Bay-0 x Shahdara recombinant inbred line population: a powerful tool for the genetic dissection of complex traits in Arabidopsis. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 104:1173-1184 Full Text PDF Version. [Please cite this paper is you have used the BXS Arabidopsis data sets.]

Jirout M, Krenova D, Kren V, Breen L, Pravenec M, Schork NJ, Printz MP (2003) A new framework marker-based linkage map and SDPs for the rat HXB/BXH strain set. expression differences in mice diverently selected for methamphetamine sensitivity. Mammalian Genome 14: 537-546

Shifman S, Bell JT, Copley BR, Taylor M, Williams RW, Mott R, Flint J (2006) A high resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genetic map of the mouse genome. PLoS Biology 4:2227-2237 Full Text PDF Version. [A comprehensive analysis of recombination rates using several populations of mice, including most major GRPs.]

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