1. This project includes 4 data sets --- BXAnewMB.csv (merged by two separated data sets of female and male mice in BxA cross by author Ioannis Stylianou), Ch3newMB.csv, Ch8newMB.csv and Ch11newMB.csv (chromosome substitution strains). The maps of those files have been updated individually and the new data files were saved as "Stylianou2006b_BxA_B37_Data.csv", "Stylianou2006c_CSS3_B37_Data.csv", "Stylianou2006d_CSS8_B37_Data.csv" and "Stylianou2006e_CSS11_B37_Data.csv". These files are ready to be read into Rqtl. This is the readme file of chromosome 8 substitution intercross; 


2. Generate a description file of the project, it includes the general information, definitions of the phenotypes, description of the genotypes and information of the missing markers;


3. For the genotypes of this cross: (cM=centimorgan, bp=basepair)
It only has genotype values of chromosome 8;


4. For the phenotypes of the cross:
(1) This data file has 150 female and male mice; 

(2) Could not find the mouse age at testing in the paper; 

(3) Could not find the definitions of trait "Mating", "Bw77" and "nonHDL" in paper, marked them with "not in paper" in light blue color in description file;


5. Except the "csv" file mentioned above, I also saved the description file, original data, data with B37 map and data process together as a big excel file ("Data_Description_CSS8_Stylianou2006d.xlsx") (first curating work finished at 6/18/2009, files updated at 7/7/2009, 8/5/2010, 2/4/2011). 


6. Information were updated on 5/25/2012:
Add a map reference in description file.