An integrative genomics approach to infer causal associations between gene expression and disease

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 710-717

  Schadt, Eric E ^a   Lamb, John ^a   Yang, Xia ^b   Zhu, Jun ^a   Edwards, Steve ^a   Thakurta, Debraj Guha ^a   Sieberts, Solveig K ^a   Monks, Stephanie ^c   Reitman, Marc ^d   Zhang, Chunsheng ^a   Lum, Pek Yee ^a   Leonardson, Amy ^a   Thieringer, Rolf ^d   Metzger, Joseph M ^d   Yang, Liming ^d   Castle, John ^a   Zhu, Haoyuan ^a   Kash, Shera F ^e   Drake, Thomas A ^f   Sachs, Alan ^a   Lusis, Aldons J ^b   more..

^a ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e Deltagen Inc   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; DBA MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; MALE; MOUSE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; COMPLEMENT C3A RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TGFB2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; ZFP90 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 1; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MODELS, GENETIC; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

EID: 22844446947     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1589     Document Type: Article

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