Integrated genome-wide analysis of expression quantitative trait loci aids interpretation of genomic association studies

Genome Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Joehanes, Roby ^a,b,c   Zhang, Xiaoling ^a,e,j   Huan, Tianxiao ^a   Yao, Chen ^a   Ying, Sai xia ^b   Nguyen, Quang Tri ^b   Demirkale, Cumhur Yusuf ^b   Feolo, Michael L ^d   Sharopova, Nataliya R ^d   Sturcke, Anne ^d   Schäffer, Alejandro A ^d   Heard Costa, Nancy ^e   Chen, Han ^f,j   Liu, Po ching ^g   Wang, Richard ^g   Woodhouse, Kimberly A ^g   Tanriverdi, Kahraman ^h   Freedman, Jane E ^h   Raghavachari, Nalini ⁱ   Dupuis, Josée ^a,j   Johnson, Andrew D ^a   O'Donnell, Christopher J ^a,k   Levy, Daniel ^a   Munson, Peter J ^b,g   more..

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^j BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k General Internal Medicine   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DNA MICROARRAY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; WEB BROWSER;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 85010755761     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1142-6     Document Type: Article

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