Calling genotypes from public RNA-sequencing data enables identification of genetic variants that affect gene-expression levels

Genome Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Deelen, Patrick ^a   Zhernakova, Daria V ^a   de Haan, Mark ^a   van der Sijde, Marijke ^a   Bonder, Marc Jan ^a   Karjalainen, Juha ^a   van der Velde, K Joeri ^a   Abbott, Kristin M ^a   Fu, Jingyuan ^a   Wijmenga, Cisca ^a   Sinke, Richard J ^a   Swertz, Morris A ^a   Franke, Lude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE SPECIFIC EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE DATABASE;

EID: 84944358125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-015-0152-4     Document Type: Article

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