Impact of the X chromosome and sex on regulatory variation

Genome Research

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 768-777

  Kukurba, Kimberly R ^a   Parsana, Princy ^b   Balliu, Brunilda ^a   Smith, Kevin S ^a   Zappala, Zachary ^a   Knowles, David A ^b   Favé, Marie Julie ^c   Davis, Joe R ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Zhu, Xiaowei ^a   Potash, James B ^d   Weissman, Myrna M ^e   Shi, Jianxin ^f   Kundaje, Anshul ^a,g   Levinson, Douglas F ^a   Awadalla, Philip ^c   Mostafavi, Sara ^h   Battle, Alexis ^b   Montgomery, Stephen B ^a,g  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g Stanford University   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELL DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; X CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84973309378     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.197897.115     Document Type: Article

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