Insight into Genotype-Phenotype Associations through eQTL Mapping in Multiple Cell Types in Health and Immune-Mediated Disease

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Peters, James E ^a,b,c   Lyons, Paul A ^a,b   Lee, James C ^a,b   Richard, Arianne C ^a,b,d   Fortune, Mary D ^b,e   Newcombe, Paul J ^c   Richardson, Sylvia ^c   Smith, Kenneth G C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTI-NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MONOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84962433779     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005908     Document Type: Article

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