Extent, causes, and consequences of small RNA expression variation in human adipose tissue

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Parts, Leopold ^a,l   Hedman, Åsa K ^b   Keildson, Sarah ^b   Knights, Andrew J ^a   Abreu Goodger, Cei ^c,d   van de Bunt, Martijn ^b,e   Guerra Assunção, José Afonso ^c,f   Bartonicek, Nenad ^c   van Dongen, Stijn ^c   Mägi, Reedik ^b,g   Nisbet, James ^a   Barrett, Amy ^e   Rantalainen, Mattias ^b,h   Nica, Alexandra C ⁱ   Quail, Michael A ^a   Small, Kerrin S ^j   Glass, Daniel ^j   Enright, Anton J ^c   Winn, John ^k   Deloukas, Panos ^a   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ⁱ   McCarthy, Mark I ^b,e   Spector, Timothy D ^j   Durbin, Richard ^a   Lindgren, Cecilia M ^b   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^j KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DIET RESTRICTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; FASTING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INSULIN; MICRORNAS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 84863641258     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002704     Document Type: Article

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