Identification of genetic variants associated with alternative splicing using sQTLseekeR

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Monlong, Jean ^a,b   Calvo, Miquel ^c   Ferreira, Pedro G ^a,d,e,f   Guigó, Roderic ^a,g  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; MESSENGER RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EXON SKIPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; INTRON RETENTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84907346176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5698     Document Type: Article

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