Figure 1

Chromosomal map illustrating the location of identified quantitative trait loci associated with sialadenitis development in various murine models. Chromosomal positions are based on the map from the Jackson Laboratory http://informatics.jax.org/. Sialadenitis susceptibility loci are drawn from *[78], ^¶[82], ^†[83] and ^‡[84]; markers with LOD score >3.3 are underscored, however, for the markers Il2, Asm2 and Hsp70 a LOD score >3.3 was only obtained in females and for the marker D1Mit153 only in males.