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VERTEBRATE TRAIT ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) is being developed as a collaborative effort between the Rat Genome Database at the Medical College of Wisconsin (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu), Mouse Genome Informatics at the Jackson Laboratory (http://www.informatics.jax.org/) and the Animal QTL database at Iowa State University (http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/index). For more information about this vocabulary, or to request additions or changes, please contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:cholesterol amount
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Accession:VT:0003947 term browser browse the term
Definition:The proportion, quantity, or volume in the body of these most abundant steroids in animal tissues, and precursors to steroid hormones and bile salts; also components of plasma membranes.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: cholesterol level


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Symbol Object Name Evidence Notes Source PubMed Reference(s) RGD Reference(s) Position
G Nr4a1 nuclear receptor subfamily 4 group A member 1 ISO RGD PMID:24722447 RGD:12910103 NCBI chrNW_004936512:9,486,096...9,508,338
Ensembl chrNW_004936512:9,499,754...9,508,423
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  vertebrate trait 5
    organism trait 1
      homeostasis trait 1
        molecule homeostasis trait 1
          lipid homeostasis trait 1
            lipid amount 1
              cholesterol amount 1
                blood cholesterol amount + 0
                brain cholesterol amount 0
                liver cholesterol amount 0
                milk cholesterol amount 0
                muscle cholesterol amount 0
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  vertebrate trait 5
    organism trait 1
      homeostasis trait 1
        molecule homeostasis trait 1
          lipid homeostasis trait 1
            sterol homeostasis trait 1
              cholesterol homeostasis trait 1
                cholesterol amount 1
                  blood cholesterol amount + 0
                  brain cholesterol amount 0
                  liver cholesterol amount 0
                  milk cholesterol amount 0
                  muscle cholesterol amount 0
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