Characterization of TCF21 Downstream Target Regions Identifies a Transcriptional Network Linking Multiple Independent Coronary Artery Disease Loci

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Sazonova, Olga ^a   Zhao, Yuqi ^b   Nürnberg, Sylvia ^a   Miller, Clint ^a   Pjanic, Milos ^a   Castano, Victor G ^a   Kim, Juyong B ^a   Salfati, Elias L ^a   Kundaje, Anshul B ^a   Bejerano, Gill ^a   Assimes, Themistocles ^a   Yang, Xia ^b   Quertermous, Thomas ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TCF21; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TCF21 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BINDING SITE; CELL INTERACTION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; BIOSYNTHESIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1;

EID: 84930789026     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005202     Document Type: Article

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