MirSNP, a database of polymorphisms altering miRNA target sites, identifies miRNA-related SNPs in GWAS SNPs and eQTLs

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Chenxing ^a,b   Zhang, Fuquan ^a,b   Li, Tingting ^d   Lu, Ming ^d   Wang, Lifang ^a,b   Yue, Weihua ^a,b   Zhang, Dai ^a,b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Tsinghua University   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs); Genome wide association study (GWAS); microRNA; MirSNP; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; INTERNET; MIRSNP DATABASE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BINDING SITES; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MICRORNAS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84869884324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-661     Document Type: Article

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