Genotype-based test in mapping Cis-regulatory variants from Allele-specific expression data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lefebvre, Jean Francois ^a   Vello, Emilio ^a,b   Ge, Bing ^b   Montgomery, Stephen B ^c,d,g   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^c,d   Pastinen, Tomi ^b,e   Labuda, Damian ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ALLELIC IMBALANCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84862017684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038667     Document Type: Article

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