Table 1.

Transcript expression measured by RT-PCR of candidate genes in selected brain areas and DRG of BXD parental strains, C57BL/6J and DBA/2J

	Cerebellum		Hippocampus		Prefrontal cortex		Striatum		DRG
Transcript	C57BL/6J	DBA/2J	C57BL/6J	DBA/2J	C57BL/6J	DBA/2J	C57BL/6J	DBA/2J	C57BL/6J	DBA/2J
Cacna2d1	1.00 ± 0.07	1.42 ± 0.08*	1.00 ± 0.14	1.16 ± 0.15	1.00 ± 0.10	1.37 ± 0.11*	1.00 ± 0.10	1.60 ± 0.22*	1.00 ± 0.11	0.38 ± 0.03**
Csnk1e	1.00 ± 0.07	1.03 ± 0.04	1.00 ± 0.10	1.93 ± 0.23**	1.00 ± 0.18	1.96 ± 0.32*	1.00 ± 0.18	1.95 ± 0.28*	1.00 ± 0.09	0.66 ± 0.07*

Values are relative to the normalized C57BL/6J strain mean ± SEM.

^*DBA/2J significantly different from C57BL/6J, P < 0.05.

^**P< 0.01, n = 5–6 for brain areas, n = 3 for DRG (seven to eight DRGs pooled from two mice per sample).