Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Pers, Tune H ^a,b   Karjalainen, Juha M ^c   Chan, Yingleong ^a,b,d   Westra, Harm Jan ^e   Wood, Andrew R ^f   Yang, Jian ^g   Lui, Julian C ^h   Vedantam, Sailaja ^a,b   Gustafsson, Stefan ⁱ   Esko, Tonu ^a,b,j   Frayling, Tim ^f   Speliotes, Elizabeth K ^k   Boehnke, Michael ^l   Raychaudhuri, Soumya ^b,e,m,n   Fehrmann, Rudolf S N ^c   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^a,b,d   Franke, Lude ^c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

ⁱ UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^m LABORATORY FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; PHENOTYPE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUALITY CONTROL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PROCEDURES;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84923096381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6890     Document Type: Article

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