Mice weights

Description

Body weights, bone density, and percent fat for mice under two diets: chow and high fat. Data provided by Karen Svenson from Jackson Laboratories. Funding to generate these data came from NIH grant P50 GM070683 awarded to Gary Churchill.

Usage

mice_weights

Format

An object of class "data.frame".

Details

• body_weight. Body weight in grams at 19 weeks.

• bone_density. Body density.

• percent_fat. Percent fat.

• sex. The sex of the mice.

• diet. The diet of the mice: chow or high fat.

• gen. These are outbread mice. This variable denotes the generation.

• litter. Which of two litters mice belong to.

Source

Karen Svenson, Daniel M. Gatti, and Gary Churchill from Jackson Laboratories.

References

Daniel M. Gatti, Petr Simecek, Lisa Somes, Clifton T. Jeffrey, Matthew J. Vincent, Kwangbom Choi, Xingyao Chen, Gary A. Churchill, and Karen L. Svenson. "The Effects of Sex and Diet on Physiology and Liver Gene Expression in Diversity Outbred Mice". bioRxiv 098657; doi:10.1101/098657

Examples

mice_weights |> head()
with(mice_weights, table(sex, diet))