Genetic architecture of atherosclerosis dissected by QTL analyses in three F2 intercrosses of apolipoprotein E-null mice on C57BL6/J, DBA/2J and 129S6/SvEvTac backgrounds

• Natalia Makhanova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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• Andrew P. Morgan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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• Yukako Kayashima,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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• Andrei Makhanov,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States of America

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• Sylvia Hiller,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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• Svetlana Zhilicheva,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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• Longquan Xu,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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• Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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• Nobuyo Maeda

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nobuyo@med.unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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