Novel distal eQTL analysis demonstrates effect of population genetic architecture on detecting and interpreting associations

Genetics

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 879-893

  Weiser, Matthew ^a   Mukherjee, Sayan ^b   Furey, Terrence S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA BINDING; EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INBREEDING; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84936076024     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.167791     Document Type: Article

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