Analysis of disease-associated objects at the Rat Genome Database

• Published in: Database : the journal of biological databases and curation Vol. 2013; p. bat046
• Main Authors: Wang, Shur-Jen, Laulederkind, Stanley J F, Hayman, G T, Smith, Jennifer R, Petri, Victoria, Lowry, Timothy F, Nigam, Rajni, Dwinell, Melinda R, Worthey, Elizabeth A, Munzenmaier, Diane H, Shimoyama, Mary, Jacob, Howard J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 2013
• Subjects: Animals; Cardiovascular Diseases - genetics; Chromosomes, Mammalian - genetics; Databases, Genetic; Disease - genetics; Genetic Association Studies; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Genome - genetics; Humans; Mice; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Nervous System Diseases - genetics; Obesity - genetics; Original; Quantitative Trait Loci - genetics; Rats; Software

The Rat Genome Database (RGD) is the premier resource for genetic, genomic and phenotype data for the laboratory rat, Rattus norvegicus. In addition to organizing biological data from rats, the RGD team focuses on manual curation of gene-disease associations for rat, human and mouse. In this work, w...