Genetic interactions affecting human gene expression identified by variance association mapping

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Brown, Andrew Anand ^a,b   Buil, Alfonso ^c,d   Viñuela, Ana ^e   Lappalainen, Tuuli ^c,d   Zheng, Hou Feng ^f   Richards, John B ^e,f   Small, Kerrin S ^e   Spector, Timothy D ^e   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^c,d   Durbin, Richard ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BIOSTATISTICS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84899627083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.01381     Document Type: Article

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