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Genetic variation in a member of the laminin gene family affects variation in body composition in Drosophila and humans

Maria De Luca1,3*, Michelle M Chambers1, Krista Casazza1, Kerry H Lok1,3, Gary R Hunter2,3, Barbara A Gower1,3 and José R Fernández1,3

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1 Department of Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-3360, USA

2 Department of Human Studies, School of Education, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 13th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294-1250, USA

3 Clinical Nutrition Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA

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BMC Genetics 2008, 9:52 doi:10.1186/1471-2156-9-52

Published: 11 August 2008

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Summary of quantitative complementation tests with mutants of positional candidate genes in D. melanogaster. The table contains a list of all the positional candidate genes and the corresponding mutant alleles analyzed by quantitative complementation tests. In the table are also reported the cytological positions of the candidate genes and the P values for Line and Line × Genotype effects of two-way factorial ANOVAs (see text for further explanation).

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