Comprehensively Evaluating cis-Regulatory Variation in the Human Prostate Transcriptome by Using Gene-Level Allele-Specific Expression

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 869-882

  Larson, Nicholas B ^a   McDonnell, Shannon ^a   French, Amy J ^a   Fogarty, Zach ^a   Cheville, John ^a   Middha, Sumit ^a   Riska, Shaun ^a   Baheti, Saurabh ^a   Nair, Asha A ^a   Wang, Liang ^b   Schaid, Daniel J ^a   Thibodeau, Stephen N ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALLELE SPECIFIC EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; START CODON; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOP CODON; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSTATE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84929192529     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.04.015     Document Type: Article

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