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Published in final edited form as: Mamm Genome. 2006 Nov 10;17(11):1065–1077. doi: 10.1007/s00335-006-0054-2

Table 2.

Summary of traits (mean ± SD)

Phenotype	Female	Male
Parental strain (C57BL/6ByJ)	n = 9	n = 10
Age at sacrifice (months)	7.4 ± 0.9	7.9 ± 0.9
Retroperitoneal adipose depot (g)^a,b,a*b	0.16 ± 0.05	0.46 ± 0.16
Gonadal adipose depot (g)^a,b,a*b	0.50 ± 0.14	1.21 ± 0.38
Sum of adipose depot (g)^a,b,a*b	0.66 ± 0.19	1.66 ± 0.54
Body weight (g)^a,b,a*b	26.4 ± 1.6	33.7 ± 1.6
Body length (cm)^a,b,a*b	8.4 ± 0.18	9.3 ± 0.18
Parental strain (129P3/J)	n = 9	n = 8
Age at sacrifice (months)	8.2 ± 0.70	8.2 ± 0.64
Retroperitoneal adipose depot (g)^a,b,a*b	0.08 ± 0.06	0.23 ± 0.07
Gonadal adipose depot (g)^a,b,a*b	0.43 ± 0.26	0.77 ± 0.20
Sum of adipose depot (g)^a,b,a*b	0.51 ± .31	1.0 ± 0.27
Body weight (g)^a,b,a*b	22.8 ± 2.2	27.4 ± 2.0
Body length (cm)^a,b,a*b	8.6 ± 0.3	8.8 ± 0.3
F₂ generation	n = 217	n = 225
Age at sacrifice (months)	8.9 ± 1.1	8.9 ± 1.2
Retroperitoneal adipose depot (g)	0.17 ± 0.22	0.33 ± 0.13*
Gonadal adipose depot (g)	0.82 ± 0.83	1.26 ± 0.52*
Sum of adipose depot (g)	0.99 ± 1.02	1.59 ± 0.63*
Body weight (g)	29.1 ± 5.4	39.1 ± 6.2*
Body length (cm)	8.6 ± 0.5	9.2 ± 0.6*

For the parental strains, superscripts indicate significant effects of strain (a), sex (b), and strain-by-sex (a*b) interactions (p < 0.05; parental data only). For the F₂ generation, * denotes significant differences between male and female mice (p < 0.05).