Abundant contribution of short tandem repeats to gene expression variation in humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 22-29

  Gymrek, Melissa ^a,b,c,d   Willems, Thomas ^a,b,d   Guilmatre, Audrey ^e,f   Zeng, Haoyang ^g   Markus, Barak ^a   Georgiev, Stoyan ^h   Daly, Mark J ^c,i   Price, Alkes L ^c,j   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^h,k   Sharp, Andrew J ^e   Erlich, Yaniv ^a,d,l,m  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d NEW YORK GENOME CENTER   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^k HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l NONE   (United States)

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

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROHN DISEASE; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TWINS;

HISTONE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CROHN DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISTONES; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TWINS;

EID: 84949599739     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3461     Document Type: Article

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