Tandem repeat sequence variation as causative Cis-eQTLs for protein-coding gene expression variation: The case of CSTB

Human Mutation

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1302-1309

  Borel, Christelle ^a,b   Migliavacca, Eugenia ^a,c   Letourneau, Audrey ^a   Gagnebin, Maryline ^a   Béna, Frédérique ^d   Sailani, M Reza ^a   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^a,e   Sharp, Andrew J ^a,b   Antonarakis, Stylianos E ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e Institute of Genetics and Genomics of Geneva (iGE3)   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Association study; CSTB; EQTL; Gene expression; Gene regulation; Tandem repeat

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN B; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT;

CELL LINE; CYSTATIN B; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84863863305     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.22115     Document Type: Article

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