Introduction to the Data Set


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Figure showing Type 2 diabetes & insulin. Created in BioRender.com


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Figure showing intercross breeding design.

Input File Format


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Table showing the mouse genotypes as BB, BR, and RR.
Attie Sample Genotypes

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Figure showing the colors and letter codes of the CC/DO founders.
CC and DO Founder Alleles

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Figure showing CC and DO genomes
Example Collaborative Cross and Diversity Outbred genomes

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Table showing the marker, chromosome, and centimorgan position for five markers
Attie Genetic Map

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Table showing top five rows of physical marker map.
Attie Physical Map

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Table showing top five rows of phenotype table, including insulin
Attie Phenotypes

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Table showing the top five rows of covariates table
Attie Covariates

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Attie Control File{alt=‘Figure showing the qtl2 control file’, width=75%}


Calculating Genotype Probabilities


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Genotype probabilities must be calculated between typed markers; adapted from Broman & Sen, 2009{‘a chromosome with two typed markers labeled BR and RR with a locus of unknown genotype between them’}


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Figure showing three-dimensional array of genotype probabilities (genoprobs)
Three-dimensional genotype probabilities array

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See this page for a graphical review of data structures in R{‘a web page showing R data structures including one-dimensional vectors and lists, two dimensional dataframes and matrices, and n-dimensional arrays’}.


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Genotype and allele probabilities{‘a table showing the probabilities for each of 36 genotypes in the Diversity Outbred followed by a second table showing probabilities for each of the 8 founder alleles’}


Performing a genome scan


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adapted from Broman & Sen, 2009
adapted from Broman & Sen, 2009

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Squared error for a single data pointThe line of best fit minimizes the sum of squared errors


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Calculating A Kinship Matrix


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Performing a genome scan with a linear mixed model


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Performing a genome scan with binary traits


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Performing a permutation test


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Significance Thresholds with/without Kinship{alt=“Comparison of significane threholds”,width=“50%”}


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Significance Threshold Variance{alt=“Figure showing decreasing variance of significance threshold estimates with increasing permutations”,width=75%}


Finding QTL peaks


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Estimating QTL effects


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Integrating Gene Expression Data


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QTL Mapping in Diversity Outbred Mice


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Benzene study dosing showing 6 hours per day, 5 days per week of inhalation.
Benzene Study Dosing

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SNP Imputation{alt=“Figure showing haplotypes being used to impute founder SNPs onto DO genomes.”,width=75%}


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Bone Marrow MN-RET Association Mapping{alt=“Plot showing LOD of each SNP in QTL interval”,width=100%}


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Bone Marrow MN-RET Association Mapping{alt=“Plot showing LOD of each SNP in QTL interval with genes below”,width=100%}


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Bone Marrow MN-RET Association Mapping{alt=“Plot showing LOD of each SNP in QTL interval with genes below and strain distribution pattern above”,width=100%}


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Sult3a1/Sult3a2 Liver eQTL{Figure showing LOD plots of Sult3a1 & 2 and CAST-specific haplotype effects}


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Ensembl gene tree of Sult3a1 & Sult3a2{Figure showing that Sult3a1 & 2 are paralogs}


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Ensembl Structural Variants{alt=“Ensembl viewer showing genes and structural variants under that chromosome 10 QTL peak”,width=100%}


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Ensembl Structural Variants{alt=“Ensembl viewer showing genes and structural variants under that chromosome 10 QTL peak”,width=100%}


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DO Founder BAM file pileups{alt=“Figure showing CAST with a duplication at the Sult3a1/2 locus.”,width=100%}


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Benezene metabolism pathways{alt=“Figure showing benezene metabolism pathways”,width=100%}


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Benzene metabolism hypothesis{alt=“Figure showing mice carrying the CAST allele being protected from benezene toxicity”,width=100%}


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