Determining causality and consequence of expression quantitative trait loci

Human Genetics

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 727-735

  Battle, A ^a,b   Montgomery, S B ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELIC IMBALANCE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA EDITING; RNA SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84901056381     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-014-1446-0     Document Type: Review

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