Discovery and validation of sub-threshold genome-wide association study loci using epigenomic signatures

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue MAY2016, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Xinchen ^a,b,c   Tucker, Nathan R ^d   Rizki, Gizem ^a   Mills, Robert ^d   Krijger, Peter H L ^e   De Wit, Elzo ^e   Subramanian, Vidya ^a   Bartell, Eric ^a   Nguyen, Xinh Xinh ^d   Ye, Jiangchuan ^d   Leyton Mange, Jordan ^d   Dolmatova, Elena V ^d   Harst, Pim Van Der ^f   Laat, Wouter De ^e   Ellinor, Patrick T ^b,d   Newton Cheh, Christopher ^b,d   Milan, David J ^d   Kellis, Manolis ^b,c   Boyer, Laurie A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QRS INTERVAL; QT INTERVAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; GENE LOCUS; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPIGENOMICS; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MICE;

EID: 84971654919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.10557     Document Type: Article

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