Tissue-Specific Effects of Genetic and Epigenetic Variation on Gene Regulation and Splicing

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Gutierrez Arcelus, Maria ^a,b,c   Ongen, Halit ^a,b,c   Lappalainen, Tuuli ^a,b,c   Montgomery, Stephen B ^a,d   Buil, Alfonso ^a,b,c   Yurovsky, Alisa ^a,b,c   Bryois, Julien ^a,b,c   Padioleau, Ismael ^a,b,c   Romano, Luciana ^a,b,c   Planchon, Alexandra ^a,b,c   Falconnet, Emilie ^a,b   Bielser, Deborah ^a,b   Gagnebin, Maryline ^a,b   Giger, Thomas ^a   Borel, Christelle ^a   Letourneau, Audrey ^a,b   Makrythanasis, Periklis ^a,b   Guipponi, Michel ^a,b   Gehrig, Corinne ^a,b   Antonarakis, Stylianos E ^a,b   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^a,b,c,e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

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

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE SPECIFIC EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EFFECT SIZE; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; EXPRESSED QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; FIBROBLAST; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMORTALIZED CELL LINE; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; METHYLATION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION END SITE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UMBILICAL CORD; ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84923634571     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004958     Document Type: Article

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