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Glossary
Term
Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) MGI Glossary
Definition
  1. A heritable genetic region that affects a measurable characteristic of the animal (e.g., body weight or blood pressure).
  2. The type of marker described by statistical association to quantitative variation in a particular phenotypic trait that is thought to be controlled by the cumulative action of alleles at multiple loci.
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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB), Gene Ontology (GO), MouseCyc
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04/03/2013
MGI 5.12 		The Jackson Laboratory