Genome-wide identification of expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTLs) in human heart

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Koopmann, Tamara T ^a   Adriaens, Michiel E ^a   Moerland, Perry D ^a   Marsman, Roos F ^a   Westerveld, Margriet L ^a   Lal, Sean ^b   Zhang, Taifang ^c   Simmons, Christine Q ^d   Baczko, Istvan ^e   Dos Remedios, Cristobal ^b   Bishopric, Nanette H ^c   Varro, Andras ^e   George Jr , Alfred L ^d   Lodder, Elisabeth M ^a   Bezzina, Connie R ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MALE; METABOLISM; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84901340791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097380     Document Type: Article

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