Alignment of the transcriptome with individual variation in animals selectively bred for High Drinking-In-the-Dark (HDID)

Among animals at risk for excessive ethanol consumption such as the HDID selected lines, there is considerable individual variation in the amount of ethanol consumed and the associated blood ethanol concentrations (BECs). For the HDID lines, this variation occurs even though the residual genetic variation associated with the DID phenotype has been largely exhausted and thus is most likely associated with epigenetic factors. Here we focus on the question of whether the genes associated with individual variation in HDID-1 mice are different from those associated with selection (risk) (Iancu et al.

Source: Alcohol - April 13, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Robert Hitzemann, Denesa Oberbeck, Ovidiu Iancu, Priscila Darakjian, Shannon McWeeney, Stephanie Spence, Jason Schlumbohm, Pamela Metten, John Crabbe Source Type: research