Identification of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Regulating Peripheral Blood mRNA Expression with Genome-Wide Significance: An eQTL Study in the Japanese Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sasayama, Daimei ^a,b   Hori, Hiroaki ^a   Nakamura, Seiji ^c   Miyata, Ryo ^c   Teraishi, Toshiya ^a   Hattori, Kotaro ^a   Ota, Miho ^a   Yamamoto, Noriko ^a   Higuchi, Teruhiko ^d   Amano, Naoji ^b   Kunugi, Hiroshi ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c DNA CHIP RESEARCH INC   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE PROBE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84872845618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054967     Document Type: Article

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