Widespread Allelic Heterogeneity in Complex Traits

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 789-802

  Hormozdiari, Farhad ^a,b   Zhu, Anthony ^a   Kichaev, Gleb ^c   Ju, Chelsea J T ^a   Segrè, Ayellet V ^d   Joo, Jong Wha J ^a,e   Won, Hyejung ^f   Sankararaman, Sriram ^a,f   Pasaniuc, Bogdan ^f   Shifman, Sagiv ^g   Eskin, Eleazar ^a,f  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^e Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

allelic heterogeneity; causal variants; complex traits; eQTL; gene expression

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX TRAITS; EFFECT SIZE; EPISTASIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOFTWARE; ALLELE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHENOTYPE;

ALLELES; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85018772148     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.04.005     Document Type: Article

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