18th Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community ran virtually September 1-3, 2021. Many HS rats researchers joined this meeting.
List of talks on HS rats at CTC-2021:
| Munro Daniel, University of California San Diego, USA; Title: Identification of regulatory landscape in multiple brain regions of outbred heterogeneous stock rats |
| Solberg Woods Leah, Wake Forest University, USA; Title: Transcriptome-wide Analyses of Adipose Tissue in Outbred Rats Reveal Novel Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms Relevant for Obesity in Humans |
| Baud Amelie, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain; Title: Investigating the gut-brain axis in 4,006 P50 Heterogeneous Stock rats |
| Leger Brittany, University of California San Diego, USA; Title: Projecting human and rat GWAS into network space identifies shared genetic control of BMI and height |
| Chitre Apurva, University of California San Diego, USA; Title: Genetic analysis of multiple measures of locomotor activity in 2,325 outbred Heterogeneous Stock rats |
| Le Thu Hong, University College London, UK; Title: Genetic mapping of multiple metabolic traits identifies novel genes for adiposity and insulin secretory capacity in outbred rats |
| Leal-Gutierrez Joel David, University of California San Diego, USA; Title: Genetic basis for unilateral renal agenesis in heterogenous stock rats |
| Kwitek Anne, Smith Jennifer, Vedi Mahima, Wang Shur-Jen, Tutaj Monika, Demos Wendy, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA; Title: Rat Genome Database (RGD) minisymposium |
| Deal Aaron, Wake Forest University, USA; Title: Genetics and sex, but not gene by diet interactions, contribute to metabolic and behavioral responses to high fat diet in heterogeneous stock rats |
| Meyer Paul, University at Buffalo, USA; Title: Genome-wide association study identifies Taar1 as a candidate gene underlying the response to a Pavlovian reward cues |
| Chen Hao, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA; Title: mRatBN7 ushers in a new era of rat genomics and genetics research |
| Mitchell Suzanne , Oregon Health & Science University, USA; Title: Comparing different quantification methods for delayed reward discounting |
| Rakowski Elizabeth, University at Buffalo, USA; Title: Preliminary Analysis of Cocaine Sensitivity in a Genome-Wide Association Study Involving Heterogeneous Stock Rats |
| Wang Tengfei , University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA ; Title: GWAS on socially acquired nicotine IVSA in heterogeneous stock rats highlights genes implicated in human smoking behavior |
| Gunturkun Hakan, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA; Title: Genome-wide association study on behaviors in an open field in outbred rats identifies multiple loci implicated in psychiatric disorders |