Predicting gene expression in massively parallel reporter assays: A comparative study

Human Mutation

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1240-1250

  Kreimer, Anat ^a,b   Zeng, Haoyang ^c   Edwards, Matthew D ^c   Guo, Yuchun ^c   Tian, Kevin ^c   Shin, Sunyoung ^d   Welch, Rene ^d   Wainberg, Michael ^e   Mohan, Rahul ^e   Sinnott Armstrong, Nicholas A ^e   Li, Yue ^c   Eraslan, Gökcen ^f   Amin, Talal Bin ^g   Tewhey, Ryan ^j,k   Sabeti, Pardis C ^j,k   Goke, Jonathan ^g   Mueller, Nikola S ^f   Kellis, Manolis ^c   Kundaje, Anshul ^e   Beer, Michael A ^h   Keles, Sunduz ^d   Gifford, David K ^c   Yosef, Nir ^a,i   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^g GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

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Author keywords

eQTLs; functional genomics; gene regulation; massively parallel reporter assays

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION ASSAY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOTYPE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MACHINE LEARNING; MASSIVELY PARALLEL REPORTER ASSAY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85014799167     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.23197     Document Type: Article

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