Supplementary Results

Phenotypes measured in baseline condition and conservation across independent studies Some of the traits measured in the present study, in particular SBP and HR, are notoriously sensitive to slight perturbations of environmental or experimental conditions. Therefore we assessed the consistency of our data with information available from independent experiments or laboratories. To do so, we calculated Pearson’s and Spearman’s correlations between our mean measurements in ctr condition and values from multistrain records of the MPD [1] across the common strains. These comparisons were restricted to MPD projects using inbred strains and experimental procedures similar with those of the present study. In the following we summarise our results: