Limited statistical evidence for shared genetic effects of eQTLs and autoimmune-disease-associated loci in three major immune-cell types

Nature Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 600-605

  Chun, Sung ^a,b,c   Casparino, Alexandra ^d   Patsopoulos, Nikolaos A ^a,c,e   Croteau Chonka, Damien C ^a,b   Raby, Benjamin A ^a,b   De Jager, Philip L ^a,b,c,e   Sunyaev, Shamil R ^a,b,c   Cotsapas, Chris ^c,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELIAC DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEREDITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85013155806     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3795     Document Type: Article

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