Genetic architecture of microRNA expression: Implications for the transcriptome and complex traits

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1046-1063

  Gamazon, Eric R ^a   Ziliak, Dana ^a   Im, Hae Kyung ^a   Lacroix, Bonnie ^a   Park, Danny S ^b   Cox, Nancy J ^a   Huang, R Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INTERACTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALGORITHMS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84862114807     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.04.023     Document Type: Article

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