Colocalization of GWAS and eQTL Signals Detects Target Genes

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1245-1260

  Hormozdiari, Farhad ^a   van de Bunt, Martijn ^b,c   Segrè, Ayellet V ^d   Li, Xiao ^d   Joo, Jong Wha J ^a   Bilow, Michael ^a   Sul, Jae Hoon ^e   Sankararaman, Sriram ^a,f   Pasaniuc, Bogdan ^f   Eskin, Eleazar ^a,f  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METABOLISM; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

DATASETS AS TOPIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INSULIN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 85003806635     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.10.003     Document Type: Article

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