Genome-wide eQTLs and heritability for gene expression traits in unrelated individuals

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yang, Shengjie ^a   Liu, Yiyuan ^c   Jiang, Ning ^a   Chen, Jing ^b   Leach, Lindsey ^b   Luo, Zewei ^a,b   Wang, Minghui ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epistasis; eQTLs; HapMap populations; Heritability; Microarray gene expression; Mixed model

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPISTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAPMAP PROJECT; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84892148636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-13     Document Type: Article

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