Modes of defining atherosclerosis in mouse models : relative merits and evolving standards / Alan Daugherty, Hong Lu, Deborah A. Howatt, and Debra L. Rateri -- Evaluating micro- and macro-vascular disease, the end stage of atherosclerosis, in rat models / James C. Russell -- Non-invasive blood pressure measurement in mice / Minjie Feng and Keith DiPetrillo -- Direct blood pressure monitoring in laboratory rodents via implantable radio telemetry / Daniel A. Huetteman and Heather Bogie -- Measuring kidney function in conscious mice / David L. Mattson -- Ischemic stroke in mice and rats / Aysan Durukan and Turgut Tatlisumak -- Mouse surgical models in cardiovascular research / Oleg Tarnavski -- Echocardiographic examination in rats and mice / Jing Liu and Dean F. Rigel -- QTL mapping in intercross and backcross populations / Fei Zou -- Quantitative trait locus analysis using J/qtl / Randy Smith, Keith Sheppard, Keith DiPetrillo, and Gary Churchill -- Computing genetic imprinting expressed by haplotypes / Yun Cheng, Arthur Berg, Song Wu, Yao Li, and Rongling Wu -- Haplotype association mapping in mice / Shirng-Wern Tsaih and Ron Korstanje -- Candidate gene association analysis / Jonathan B. Singer -- Genome-wide association study in humans / J. Gustav Smith and Christopher Newton-Cheh -- Bioinformatics analysis of microarray data / Yunyu Zhang, Joseph Szustakowski, and Martina Schinke -- eQTL analysis in mice and rats / Bruno M. Tesson and Ritsert C. Jansen -- eQTL analysis in humans / Lude Franke and Ritsert C. Jansen -- A Systematic strategy for the discovery of candidate genes responsible for phenotypic variation / Paul Fisher, Harry Noyes, Stephen Kemp, Robert Stevens, and Andrew Brass