The College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Donghua University, 2999 North Renmin Road, Shanghai, 201620, People's Republic of China.
Mamm Genome. 2012 Apr;23(3-4):232-40. doi: 10.1007/s00335-011-9377-8. Epub 2011 Dec 3.
The human complex diseases such as hypertension, precocious puberty, and diabetes have their own diagnostic thresholds, which are usually estimated from the epidemiological data of nature populations. In the mouse models, numerous phenotypic data of complex traits have been accumulated; however, knowledge of the phenotypic distribution of the natural mouse populations remains quite limited. In order to investigate the distribution of quantitative traits of wild mice, 170 F1 progeny aged 8-10 weeks and derived from wild mice collected from eight spots in the suburbs of Shanghai were tested for their values of anatomic, blood chemical, and blood hematological parameters. All the wild mice breeders were of Mus. m. musculus and Mus. m. castaneus maternal origin according to the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers of the mitochondrial DNA. The results showed that phenotypes in wild mice had a normal distribution with four to six times the standard deviation. For the majority of the traits, the wild outbred mice and laboratory inbred mice have significantly different ranges and mean values, whereas the wild mice did not necessarily show more phenotypic diversity than the inbred ones. Our data also showed that natural populations may have some unique phenotypes related to sugar and protein metabolism, as the mean value of wild mice differ dramatically from the inbred mice in the levels of blood glucose, BUN (blood urea nitrogen), and total blood protein. The epidemiological information of the complex traits in the nature population from our study provided valuable reference for the application of mouse models in those complex disease studies.
人类的复杂疾病,如高血压、性早熟和糖尿病,都有自己的诊断阈值,这些阈值通常是根据自然人群的流行病学数据来估计的。在小鼠模型中,已经积累了大量复杂特征的表型数据;然而,关于自然小鼠种群的表型分布的知识仍然相当有限。为了研究野生小鼠的数量性状分布,我们对从上海郊区八个地点采集的 170 只 8-10 周龄的野生小鼠 F1 后代进行了解剖、血液生化和血液血液学参数的检测。所有的野生鼠种都是 Mus. m. musculus 和 Mus. m. castaneus 的母系起源,这是根据线粒体 DNA 的单核苷酸多态性(SNP)标记确定的。结果表明,野生小鼠的表型呈正态分布,标准差为 4 到 6 倍。对于大多数特征,野生近交系小鼠和实验室近交系小鼠的范围和平均值有显著差异,而野生小鼠并不一定比近交系小鼠表现出更多的表型多样性。我们的数据还表明,自然种群可能具有一些与糖和蛋白质代谢相关的独特表型,因为野生小鼠的血糖、BUN(血尿素氮)和总血蛋白水平与近交系小鼠的平均值有显著差异。本研究中自然种群复杂特征的流行病学信息为将小鼠模型应用于这些复杂疾病研究提供了有价值的参考。
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