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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:liver adipose amount
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Accession:VT:0010947 term browser browse the term
Definition:The proportion, quantity, or volume of the fat-storing tissue in the liver, the bile-secreting exocrine gland which is important for detoxification; for fat, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism; and for glycogen storage.



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  vertebrate trait 2888
    organ system trait 1978
      alimentary system trait 127
        hepatobiliary system morphology trait 62
          liver morphology trait 62
            liver adipose amount 0
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  vertebrate trait 2888
    organ system trait 1978
      connective tissue trait 440
        connective tissue morphology trait 380
          adipose morphology trait 71
            white adipose morphology trait 21
              white adipose amount 21
                liver adipose amount 0
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