The architecture of gene regulatory variation across multiple human tissues: The muTHER study

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Nica, Alexandra C ^a,b   Parts, Leopold ^a   Glass, Daniel ^c   Nisbet, James ^a   Barrett, Amy ^d   Sekowska, Magdalena ^a   Travers, Mary ^d   Potter, Simon ^a   Grundberg, Elin ^a,c   Small, Kerrin ^a,c   Hedman, Åsa K ^d   Bataille, Veronique ^c   Bell, Jordana ^c,d   Surdulescu, Gabriela ^c   Dimas, Antigone S ^b,d   Ingle, Catherine ^a   Nestle, Frank O ^c   Meglio, Paola ^c   Min, Josine L ^d   Wilk, Alicja ^a   Hammond, Christopher J ^c   Hassanali, Neelam ^d   Yang, Tsun Po ^a   Montgomery, Stephen B ^b   O'Rahilly, Steve ^e   Lindgren, Cecilia M ^d   Zondervan, Krina T ^d   Soranzo, Nicole ^a,c   Barroso, Inês ^a,e   Durbin, Richard ^a   Ahmadi, Kourosh ^c   Deloukas, Panos ^a   McCarthy, Mark I ^d,f,g   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^b   Spector, Timothy D ^c   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TWINS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; REGULATOR GENE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REGULATOR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SKIN; TWINS;

EID: 79952256739     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002003     Document Type: Article

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