Genetics of human gene expression: Mapping DNA variants that influence gene expression

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 595-604

  Cheung, Vivian G ^a   Spielman, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COPINE 1; DJ 1 PROTEIN; DNA; EPOXIDE HYDROLASE; EPOXIDE HYDROLASE 1; PROTEIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL TYPE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 68949211709     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2630     Document Type: Review

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