DeepSAGE Reveals Genetic Variants Associated with Alternative Polyadenylation and Expression of Coding and Non-coding Transcripts

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Zhernakova, Daria V ^a   de Klerk, Eleonora ^b   Westra, Harm Jan ^a   Mastrokolias, Anastasios ^b   Amini, Shoaib ^b   Ariyurek, Yavuz ^b   Jansen, Rick ^c   Penninx, Brenda W ^c   Hottenga, Jouke J ^d   Willemsen, Gonneke ^d   de Geus, Eco J ^d   Boomsma, Dorret I ^d   Veldink, Jan H ^e   van den Berg, Leonard H ^e   Wijmenga, Cisca ^a   den Dunnen, Johan T ^b   van Ommen, Gert Jan B ^b   't Hoen, Peter A C ^b   Franke, Lude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; POLYADENYLATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RETROPOSON; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VOLUNTEER;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 84879674031     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003594     Document Type: Article

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