Modeling disease risk through analysis of physical interactions between genetic variants within chromatin regulatory circuitry

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1313-1320

  Corradin, Olivia ^a,b   Cohen, Andrea J ^a   Luppino, Jennifer M ^a   Bayles, Ian M ^a   Schumacher, Fredrick R ^a   Scacheri, Peter C ^a,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RISK; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHROMATIN;

CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84988439210     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3674     Document Type: Article

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