Additive, epistatic, and environmental effects through the lens of expression variability QTL in a twin cohort

Genetics

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 413-425

  Wang, Gang ^a   Yang, Ence ^a   Brinkmeyer Langford, Candice L ^a   Cai, James J ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive genetic effect; Epistasis; evQTL; Expression variability; Genetic interaction; Twin cohort

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN; TWINS;

ADDITIVE GENETIC EFFECT; EPISTASIS; EVQTL; EXPRESSION VARIABILITY; GENETIC INTERACTION; TWIN COHORT;

COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGISTRIES; TWINS;

EID: 84899620551     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.157503     Document Type: Article

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