Cis and Trans Effects of Human Genomic Variants on Gene Expression

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Bryois, Julien ^a,b,c   Buil, Alfonso ^a,b,c   Evans, David M ^d,e   Kemp, John P ^d   Montgomery, Stephen B ^a,f   Conrad, Donald F ^g   Ho, Karen M ^d   Ring, Susan ^d   Hurles, Matthew ^g   Deloukas, Panos ^g,h,i   Davey Smith, George ^d   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^a,b,c,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3)   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIS GENE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANS GENE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN GENOME; PHENOTYPE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84905484562     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004461     Document Type: Article

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