Identification, replication, and functional fine-mapping of expression quantitative trait loci in primary human liver tissue

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Innocenti, Federico ^a   Cooper, Gregory M ^b,g   Stanaway, Ian B ^b   Gamazon, Eric R ^a   Smith, Joshua D ^b   Mirkov, Snezana ^a   Ramirez, Jacqueline ^a   Liu, Wanqing ^a   Lin, Yvonne S ^b   Moloney, Cliona ^c   Aldred, Shelly Force ^d   Trinklein, Nathan D ^d   Schuetz, Erin ^e   Nickerson, Deborah A ^b   Thummel, Ken E ^b   Rieder, Mark J ^b   Rettie, Allan E ^b   Ratain, Mark J ^a   Cox, Nancy J ^a   Brown, Christopher D ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d SwitchGear Genomics   (United States)

^e ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE PROBE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MALE; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGE; CAUCASIAN; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; HISPANIC; HUMAN GENOME; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEGRO; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEP G2 CELLS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIVER; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 79957993750     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002078     Document Type: Article

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