Candidate causal regulatory effects by integration of expression QTLs with complex trait genetic associations

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Nica, Alexandra C ^a,b   Montgomery, Stephen B ^a,b   Dimas, Antigone S ^a,b   Stranger, Barbara E ^a,c   Beazley, Claude ^a   Barroso, Inês ^a   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNOGENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 77952367694     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000895     Document Type: Article

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