Assessing allele-specific expression across multiple tissues from RNA-seq read data

Bioinformatics

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 2497-2504

  Pirinen, Matti ^a   Lappalainen, Tuuli ^b,c,d,e,f   Zaitlen, Noah A ^g   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^b,c   Donnelly, Peter ^h,i   McCarthy, Mark I ^h,j   Rivas, Manuel A ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK GENOME CENTER   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECM1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ISOPROTEIN; RNA; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS OF URBACH AND WIETHE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA;

EID: 84941725069     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv074     Document Type: Article

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